It Happens (sometimes things just go wrong)

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Being a parent is hard. Some days, things go wrong for no reason at all. Bad days happen and you need to learn to just roll with it.

Mother shrugging her shoulders

I love music. A whole lot. So much, that I am surprised I have not ever posted song lyrics on here that have inspired me. But that seems awfully cheesy and Jr. High-ish…so I suppose giving it a good three years before I did so was a good idea.

Today, you are getting lyrics.

Again, I love music and like just about any type of music (just about). I was recently listening to Sugarland, and came across the song “It Happens.” I thought the chorus was absolutely perfect for many of us moms to chant to ourselves some days:

“It Happens” Lyrics

Now it is poor me, why me, oh me
Boring the same old worn out blah blah story
There is no good explanation for it at all

Ain’t no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain’t no need to over think it
Let go laughing

Life don’t go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
Irrefutable, indisputable
The fact is

Psssh

It happens

How This Relates to Parenting

As I was listening to this, it struck me that is often true even in simple parenting tasks.

I think the most common and best-fitting thing this can be tied to is a poor nap. Sometimes your baby or child will not sleep well. The reasons can range. Sometimes you can really just nail it down.

But sometimes, it just happens.

There is no good reason for it. There is no need to analyze and stress about it. Laugh it off.

Despite your best efforts and despite your sacrifices and plans, things won’t always work out perfectly according to your master plan.

And it just happens.

What about behavior? Some days, your child will throw a fit for no good reason. It might even happen in the middle of the store.

It happens.

Some days, your child will eat only enough to keep a small ant alive.

It happens.

Some days, you are going to mess up big time. You will do something that you later realize was really a dumb move on your part.

It happens.

So take the songs advice and laugh it off. No need to stress and agonize over something that sometimes bad occurs. Sometimes, it happens.

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