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1. Now, it's a simple fact that creating a mess is a child's core responsibility. Eat, Poop, refuse to eat, overhear and repeat bad words... And create giant disasters in your living room, kitchen, bathrooms, and bedrooms. But its a frustration and a release, because you know...you know when they go to tip over a large bucket of small toys, crash one toy through a pile of other toys. deep in your heart you know you want it to happen. You secretly wish it was you, you want to do it yourself.
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2. So after that moment of destruction and before the team cleanup (before mom gets home), you are faced with the oldest of mammal challenges. How to avoid stepping on those little insidious monsters, that seem to be specifically designed to send pain through your foot up your spine and out through your mouth with a yell from your core. So, with that, this is a fully thought out philosophy on ALL that
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3. And at a child's best, the clean up can be part of the play process. There's nothing better than a team clean up. Please if there's something better than that, then tell me... I demand you tell me... actually don't. Because creating a mess and cleaning it up with a little, slightly adjusted human, is precious. Standing over an experience you shared at both extremes of control and chaos. You, together, have explored life and shared a tiny victory within that tiny moment.
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