[blparent] Going on a Shoe Hunt

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

That's right, a shoe hunt.  An endless one.  Sarah has gotten to where she'll just take off her shoes and leave them where they land, even though there's a place for them that she can reach just fine.  I try to remind her to put her shoes away when I know she's taking them off, but I'm not always around.  She sees me put my shoes back in the same place every time so I can find them when I want them, and Dad has a place for his shoes, mostly so they stay out of my way on the floor.  But anyway, then there's a frantic shoe hunt when she has to be somewhere, like before school this morning, and it usually turns into Dad getting exasperated and Mom trying to find the shoes while Sarah goes on about some important but unrelated mission, because we're in too much of a hurry to make her look for them.

Anybody else have this problem?  Any ideas?

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist