When one of my kiddos was preschool-aged and was learning how to do something new, she would stick her little tongue out to the side and figure it out, no matter how long it took her. (And she definitely<\/em> wouldn’t accept help from me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n But one day, Bailey said something under her breath that caught me off guard – and not in a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My husband was peeling carrots for dinner, and she walked up to him with a big smile on her face. “Can I do that?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n She’d never<\/strong> peeled anything before, so my mama heart squeezed at the thought of a sharp peeler in her tiny hands. What if she slips and cuts herself? What if she slices off a chunk of her thumb? What if we end up in the ER?!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily, my husband is way more chill than I am, so he said, “Sure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I caught Tyler’s eye and raised an eyebrow at him, and he just smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He got Bailey set up at the breakfast table with a bag of carrots and the peeler, and he gave her a quick safety lesson in Vegetable Peeling 101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When she picked up the peeler, I felt an adrenaline surge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I knew enough not to hover, so I hung back in the kitchen and didn’t say a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download:<\/strong> Get these fun coloring posters<\/a> for your child to teach them the power of hard work and sticking with a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n