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\nSharing is hard when you’re 2.
\nSharing is hard when you’re 3 + 5 + 18 + 27, too.
\nWho teaches people to share, anyways? Birds?
\nBecause I often think sharing is for the freaking birds.<\/p>\n

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Jonah has had a rough time sharing lately. But the other day he shared his “special baseball” with Riggins without being asked + I was floored. THIS IS HUGE, guys. He doesn’t share that thing with an.y.b-o-d-y. He will share his regular baseball\u00a0+ dad’s baseball mitt, but if you ask him to have a turn with his <\/i>baseball mitt or\u00a0his<\/i>\u00a0special baseball, I’ll bet you a buck it ends in tears.<\/div>\n
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This S word has been consuming many of my thoughts. Sharing is interesting on many different levels. The opposite of Sharing? Not sharing, simple. Or keeping it for yourself which is aka being selfish, right? My mom has super powers in the sharing department. I can honestly say that I don’t ever remember fighting over clothes growing up, or french fries, or anything with my siblings really. She taught us how to share from a very young age. She might have a different side of the story, but that’s how I remember it. Why can’t I do this with my kids? Granted they are currently 2 years old + 6 months, but still.<\/div>\n
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I have decided that sharing is something we learn over + over\u00a0+ over as adults.\u00a0I’m talking deeper than the “he gets 3 minutes with the baseball, then you get 3” kind of sharing at the park. I’m talking really, truly, sincerely, genuinely being happy for the success other people are having when you want it SO bad for yourself. This motherhood rollercoaster brings out this sillly “my way is the best way” obnoxious beast in each of us at different times. One of my favorite blogs,\u00a0Lunchpails + Lipstick\u00a0<\/a>put this quote on instagram the other day –\u00a0“CHEERING FOR THE UNDERDOG IS EASY, NOW TRY CHEERING FOR THOSE WHO ARE DOING BETTER THAN YOU.” \u00a0Gulp. Amen, amen\u00a0+ amen.\u00a0I love that. I feel like it’s much harder, but it’s so much more important. It feels like we live in this world where the more followers or friends you have the cooler you are. These numbers prove that you must be a better mother or friend or neighbor + definitely a better\u00a0decorator. \ud83d\ude09 You know, like when someone has 4,000 more twitter followers than you do when you have been tweeting some super hilarious jokes or posting the best pictures ever? What about congratulating your cousins who found out they are pregnant when you have been trying for 3 years.\u00a0It might sound stupid, or harsh, but when I compare these situations to sharing a “special” baseball in the grand scheme of life, it’s all just as important.\u00a0How do we expect to teach our kids to share, when we don’t know how to share ourselves? Whether it’s happiness or success or chips + salsa.\u00a0Don’t be afraid to share your “special” things, not just the stuff that is easy to share. We all need each other + as soon as everyone is on the same page that there isn’t a cap to the amount of success we are each allotted, we will live in a much, much happier place- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – drops the mic awkwardly + walks off the stage.<\/div>\n
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Sharing is hard when you’re 2. Sharing is hard when you’re 3 + 5 + 18 + 27, too. Who teaches people to share, anyways? Birds? Because I often think sharing is for the freaking birds. Jonah has had a rough time sharing lately. But the other day he shared his “special baseball” with Riggins…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/brothers_zps2e16ae59.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mhS8-OF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18209,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/18209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}