For a long time Cody had a certain sippy cup that he preferred over all the others… even though the sippy cups were all exactly the same except for color. He always wanted a blue cup with the matching blue lid. Sometimes it was important enough to him that he would throw a major tantrum over it. We would always tell him that he was being so silly and that it doesn’t matter what color the cup was, they are all the same and it wouldn’t make his drink taste any different if his cup was green!
One day after a big brawl over this exact issue I realized that I was that way about a LOT of things! For instance, I never like to wear some shades of brown, but I love to wear other shades. I would never buy a pink lamp shade, even though pink is my favorite color. We got bright yellow towels for our wedding and we refuse to put them in our bathroom. So, I had to ask myself, why do we get so upset when Cody demands a certain color of cup? The truth is, I even prefer certain cups depending on what beverage I am drinking. I despise drinking milk out of a plastic cup, I only like juice out of a smaller skinnier glasses, and I like water for dinner in a big clear glass with no ice, but at night with my snack I would rather have it in a large plastic cup with lots of ice.
Adults so often scoff at the silly whims of children, but the truth is, we all have things that we prefer. As adults we don’t have to announce them and beg for them, we just do it and feel satisfied. But children don’t have that luxury. Once I came to this realization, I tried to give Cody his blue cup whenever I possibly could. Maybe if I had a blue sippy that would be the only thing I would drink out of too.
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