Day 12 - Selective Hearing

I think my kids might be on to something...I really do. You know how many times I've said something that I probably shouldn't have said...multiply any random single number with 1,000,000..and you have the right answer. If everybody had selective hearing at just the right time..I think the world would be a better place. For instance, this morning, somebody told me to wake up. It's someone who has a pretty important high-stress job (not my family, thank goodness) and had just heard another mom make a comment about her whistle. If I could turn back time, I would have seriously pointed to the other mom and said, it wasn't me. Regardless, I was flicking off a bug that my daughter had just found on her shirt. I didn't want her to freak out, so I kind of stood there, in the safe zone, while I flicked off the bug. The crossing guard got mad at me and told me to wake up. I was just a mili second late from when she motioned us to cross...really, it wasn't that long, but that comment kind of got me upset. I thought of all the other comments she could have used to get us going...like..it's time to cross, good morning or why did the chicken cross the road, to get to the Starbucks on the other side. But..she chose to say wake up instead. I know for a fact that I wasn't sleeping, you got to be awake to drive to school..but it got me thinking about all the other 1,000,000+ random times that I said something that I probably shouldn't have said. So..for my RAK, I decided to have selective hearing. If I heard something mean or hurtful from anybody today, I decided to just ignore it, just like my kids do when I tell them it's time to get ready for bed or set the table for dinner. Give it a try..if someone has said something just a little bit hurtful, pretend to have selective hearing and ignore it. If it happens again, well..then, it might just be time to have a little talk with that person to resolve the problem.