Good Parenting!
Monday, August 4, 2008 at 12:37PM Ronna Mandel, L.A. Parent's editorial assistant, had one recently. Coleman, her 7-year-old son, had charged her with taking Fuzzy, one of his favorite stuffed animals, with her to work everyday. Fuzzy seemed to make everyone feel a bit more connected to each other throughout the day and provided a bit of extra security for Coleman. That is, until the dark day last week when Ronna accidentally left Fuzzy behind.
But in a moment of brilliant mothering, Ronna related to Coleman that Fuzzy was enjoying an adventure at the L.A. Parent offices. Not only did Coleman take to the concept; he fully embraced it and decided to dictate a little story to his mom about Fuzzy's fun overnight excursion:
Fuzzy's Accidental Overnight at L.A. Parent
By Coleman Sokol
Hi. I'm Coleman. This is a story about when my stuffed animal, Fuzzy, got left at L.A. Parent.
I know my mom did not mean to leave him there, but she did. He stayed all night on top of her computer because every day I give him to her so he will not be at home all alone.
At night, he came down from the top of the computer screen and he typed a message on the computer to my mom, but my mom was sleeping. Fuzzy told me in another e-mail where he was and I told my mom when she got up and at the same time he typed me a letter, too. He told me what it said. It said,
"Dear Coleman, I am overnight at LA Parent, but I am fine. No worries. From Fuzzy."
So then after I read the letter, I told my mom he was OK. The next day, after the accident at night, we slept together happily ever after.
The End.
P.S.: I don't let my mom take Fuzzy in to work anymore!
Reader Comments (1)
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?