When you JUST DON’T KNOW the answer.

Oh boy!  We’ve all been there. haven’t we?  Sometimes it is just impossible to know what that answer is.  I remember when I was younger, somebody I was actually a bridesmaid for years back, looked at me and said that with all the multiplicity of a doctor like House (on TV), and HE could figure out what is wrong with me.

Well, of course, that is not a real documentary, so no way I could get any answer from him.  Although I have never met him in person Hugh Laurie (? I think that’s his real name) might be sympathetic or whatever, I don’t believe he ever could or would know everything about my medical conditions.

Sometimes, though, we don’t have answers for other people such as our own children.  And you know what?  It’s ok to admit you don’t know, or Daddy might know the answer although I can’t or vice versa.  We are not all perfect in our lives or the knowledge of even the things we do know about.

Personally I think one of the best role models we can be for our children is to admit we don’t know and demonstrating to them different ways of FINDING the answer.  And there are lots of way of discovering that answer…..if it’s not applicable to my situation because mine  is different to the displayed that’s ok because it’s not personalised to each person but gives a general rule of thumb to use to work out the answer.

Of course, there are also the times things go wrong and I come across an unexpected situation and I simply don’t even know how to be or where to look for what in these circumstances.  I often have to remind myself that I don’t need to add guilt onto the situation that I don’t know the answer to.  

TREASURE

Not everything in life is perfect and it’s ok to not only admit that we don’t know what to do, go away and do something else and come back to it to find the answer as many times as we need.