My eldest asked to have his own room. Part of me is ecstatic to see him growing into a young man and the rest of me is terrified to see him grow up. He won’t be my little boy for long. So when he said he wanted his own room I tackled it the way I do most parenting situations. I said no, then I thought about it for a while, and finally I figured out a way to throw money at the problem.
I realized that his first initial, R, is that of my favorite DC hero, Robin. It gave me a design element to work off of and a way to deflect the emotion of this major step forward into a design project he and I can work on together and be really happy about. The fact of the move is my boy is getting older and wants his own space. He attributes the move to a need to sleep in total darkness (absent night lights), something that won’t happen with his two younger brothers sharing a space with him. I know it is more than that. I know he wants his privacy on occasion and he doesn’t get that opportunity with dem franchize boys hanging off his bed railing. My wifey thinks the whole thing is folly and he’ll give up on the idea of his own space pretty quickly. She challenged him to sleep in the perspective room for one month alone to see what would happen. He agreed and moves in tomorrow.
30 days of anything is a challenge. I’m looking forward to see how the boy handles his.
Some Thoughts:
- The beautiful thing about a new month is a clear calendar that presents 30 straight days to form new habits. In honor of the wife’s challenge I am relaunching a challenge to myself. 30 days of exercise. Lets see how it works.