Filling the silence
My older one told me recently that some K-Pop songs were stuck in his head. Songs he’d heard at school.. catchy, full of words he didn’t even understand and yet he couldn’t stop (wanting to) sing them. At first, I told him, “Just stop thinking about it.” But then I caught myself. What else does he have to fill that space? Our home is often quiet (because the toddler’s napping). And when it isn’t, it’s chaos! Blippi, Baby Shark, random YouTube noise. There isn’t much else for his mind to reach for. It made me realise how easy it is to focus only on what we don’t want > the noise, the negativity, the influences we’d rather avoid without thinking about what we’re replacing them with. We tell our kids not to listen to certain songs, not to watch certain shows, not to say certain words… But are we filling their world with what we do want to take root? It’s the same for us, isn’t it? We tell ourselves not to worry, not to burn out, not to compare. But what do we feed our he...