In January, I did this activity with my girls. It was called Bad Habits No S'More and I totally borrowed it from this blog: http://goforwardwithfaith.blogspot.de/2011/08/bad-habit-bonfire.html#more . Ummmm...I'm not sure HOW to make that without the entire address. I haven't learned that yet as a blogger.
It turned out pretty great. We modified it. I didn't know what the laws were in Germany about making bonfires so as you can see I just made a minibonfire with tealights.
They were very careful and I made sure the oven hood was on!
You can see that some of our bad habits have been burned up here! That was...a little bit dangerous but no one got burned.
And then, yep! I made them roast marshmallows over the tealights. Don't do it. It doesn't work. I lit some bigger candles for a bigger flame.
Now, we burnt up some bad habits that night. It was great! Sometimes when you move to new places you pick up bad habits.
Like, using the word 'like', like all the time!
Or not looking when you cross the road.
Or depending on rice krispie cereal to just be available and so not stockpiling.
All of these things can cause problems!
BIG PROBLEMS!
Like, your pre-teens forget how to speak a sentence in completion. Or your preteen gets hit by a car while crossing the street in front of your house (don't worry, she is fine!...but still! more on this later) and they suddenly stop selling rice krispies that are not chocolate. WHO DOES THAT!?! The entire country of Germany, that's who!
Or you work really hard on making sure you don't diet or complain about your body in front of your kids and then one day your super skinny daughter starts complaining about how fat she is! WHAT?!?! Wait a minute! We don't even have a scale in the house. I don't emphasize weight or let them know how I'm not exactly the way I want to be. So when I hear this...I have to wonder where I went wrong! I have contemplated this for weeks now and suddenly this morning I woke up and knew the answer. Just because I don't complain about being slightly chubby doesn't mean that my children DON'T SEE IT FOR THEMSELVES! Shock! Horror! Hand to the forehead! So my habits need to be reexamined. I can get rid of the extra sweets and I can work out more. This little bad habits no s'more lesson...I'm taking it on literally! No S'mores for me! I need to health up! I'm still not going to complain about my weight...I'm just going to change it. And I'm going to emphasize to my beautiful daughters that they are beautiful and healthy. And I'm going to make sure they are healthy because I want to be a good Mom! I really do!
My chia seeds arrived today and I'm dusting off my juicer! And I'm bookmarking Physique 57 and doing one EVERY SINGLE DAY! And I'm wearing my workout clothes until the exercise is done. And sometimes I will have cake when I'm really good.
I love teaching my girls fun things...I always learn something in the process.
