{"id":136,"date":"2010-07-14T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/?p=136"},"modified":"2021-05-08T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:23:05","slug":"giving-yourself-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/giving-yourself-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Yourself Permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_INNUA60IYSQ\/TEi-BTMUN8I\/AAAAAAAAADk\/PQXGNtluEcQ\/s1600\/downsized_0713001644a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_INNUA60IYSQ\/TEi-BTMUN8I\/AAAAAAAAADk\/PQXGNtluEcQ\/s320\/downsized_0713001644a.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On weekend mornings, I like to pick up a Take-a-Hike scone at the Bleeding Heart Bakery and walk over to Fellger Park and eat it slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Fellger Park is a small corner park, size-wise, but I see it more as an incredible, magical play lot. It\u2019s equipped with benches for moms and nannies; swings, slides, small tables for make believe tea parties, a red locomotive that doesn\u2019t go anywhere (ah, but I imagine sitting in it affords the greatest views), and a tree-shaped sprinkler that can cool down any munchkin during a summer heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>The ground is also made out of that wonderful spongy material that seems to forgive falls and the effects too much enthusiasm can have on a kid\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, from a bench there, I overheard a sweetly intimate father-daughter conversation. A three year-old blonde girl, frail build, wearing glasses, was looking very circumspect at the fountain tree and the gleeful scurrying other kids were making directly in the path of the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad,\u201d she asked. \u201cCan I go in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t move. She just watched the other kids more intently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad,\u201d she repeated. \u201cCan I go in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her cheeks were tender and pink, like the insides of a bunny\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d he repeated.<\/p>\n<p>She thought quietly for a bit then posed the question differently:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad, will you go in with me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t bring my bathing suit,\u201d he replied. \u201cSo I won\u2019t go in, but you can go in.\u201d He squeezed her hand and tried to reassure her. \u201cYou can go in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stood still for a while. A four year-old boy, stripped down to his underpants, raced, screaming by her, wet strands of his hair plastered against his freckles as he beat a circular path under and around the fountain. Then the coast was clear again.<\/p>\n<p>I think she was about to ask her father yet one more time, but instead took a sigh and walked slowly to the edge of the puddle made by the cascading water.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t run underneath the stream. She raised one foot, white gym shoes still tied pristinely, and stamped it down with all her might, making the water splash upward, droplets of spray tickling her legs up to the hem of her shorts.<\/p>\n<p>For now, this was enough. Maybe next week, she\u2019ll run her hands under the waterfall or step in barefoot. I was so proud of her.<\/p>\n<p>Giving yourself permission to get wet is no small thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On weekend mornings, I like to pick up a Take-a-Hike scone at the Bleeding Heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","grateful-dozen-surprise"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Giving Yourself Permission &#8211; No Small Thing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/giving-yourself-permission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Giving Yourself Permission &#8211; 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