My first reality TV love is cooking shows. Iron Chef, Top Chef, Guy’s Grocery Games, Cutthroat Kitchen, Chopped…and so on.
Today I had my own version of a mystery basket with a limited pantry. And for the first time in a long time, I heard genuine words of praise from my kids after eating their dinner. A simple baked chicken with herbs, buttered rice, and salad with a homemade dressing that did not use oil or vinegar.
Limitations are truly the mother of all invention. It is through limitations, whether that be money, tools, resources, etc., that I have learned how to improvise and MacGyver solutions. I have wondered how the lack of limitations will impact my kids’ resourcefulness and resilience.
Limitations is not something that I can pretend into my life. I couldn’t get my kids to believe that we have the same kind of limitations I had growing up, and I wouldn’t go out of my way to create those limitations for them (though I definitely thought about it before I had kids).
So the unanswered question is how does one demonstrate to their kids the limitations that can exist and give them opportunities to create from limitation when real life rather fruitful?
