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Mini-Failures - when you're wrong or did something wrong, the Micro Edition

In a family, failure is abound.  It going be on a big scale, of course, but most practically, it exists on a micro-scale.

To a toddler, maybe you failed by pouring the cereal incorrectly (yes, there is such a thing).  Maybe to a 3-year-old, you light the birthday cake too soon (yes, there is such a thing).  Maybe to your middle-schooler, your screen time protections backfired (yes, there is such a thing).  Maybe you ordered the wrong meal, or item, and brought your family a version less, or different, than they expected.

The fact is that these circumstances have a way of accumulating throughout the day... and with those failures, so does our reaction to those events.  Are we throwing pity parties?  Or are we owning it and moving forward? 

That responsive, reactive energy has a lot to do with our mental state going into the next micro battle.  The thing is ... it doesn't always have to be fixed right away.  A delay isn't a bad thing.  Either new problems emerge or solutions to old problems present themselves.  Stated differently - life happens and things change.  But more importantly, the fact that the world spins doesn't mean that we ignore problems.  It's just that we don't have to bring an urgency to these problems.  Let the problem just be a problem.  You're not ignoring it - you're giving it space to exist, room for you to be comfortable with it, and an opportunity for a better solution to emerge.  Not so terrible?

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