Too busy for cool?

If you’ve ever thought you weren’t very cool, like me, it’s an interesting exercise to begin to ask people what you should do to be cooler. Tonight, I dared to ask my 10-year-old daughter, for whom the very nature of this question put my cool status at greater risk.

Nonetheless, her answers were quite different than I expected. She didn’t tell me I should ride a motorcycle, or dress better, or ease up on the rules. Nope. Here is her list of the things I could do to become “cooler.”

1.     Take us fun places

2.     Do crafts with us

3.     Snuggle in bed with us

4.     Jump on the Trampoline

5.     Snuggle with us while watching movies

6.     Read us more books

7.     Play board games with us

8.     Teach us how to cook

Now, granted it’s not that I don’t do these things, but the common thread here is that Mom is busy. Too busy.

Being busy makes me uncool. Yes. Boring. Too much work. Too many dishes, bills to pay, toys to clean up, too much distraction. So here, in my effort to turn this un-cool mom thing around, I’m going to have to do this. It’s just the right thing to do anyway. Tomorrow, I become cool... at least to my 10-year-old daughter.