This comes from Kathleen Auerbach. Add in your own thoughts on this subject..!!

Be a kid again...

Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.
-Dot all your "i"'s with smiley faces
-Sing into your hairbrush
-Grow a milk mustache
-Smile back at the man in the moon
-Read the funnies Throw the rest of the paper away
-Dunk your cookies
-Ask somebody if their refrigerator is running
-Open a pack of cupcakes and give one to a friend even though you wanted
   both of them for yourself
-Pretend your bread rolls are tap dancing
-Step carefully over sidewalk cracks
-Change into some play clothes
-Try to get someone to trade you a better sandwich
-Have a staring contest with your cat
-Eat ice cream for breakfast
-Kiss a frog just in case
-Give someone a "Hug-around-the-neck"
-Blow the wrapper off a straw
-Refuse to eat crusts
-Make a face the next time somebody tells you "no"
-Watch TV in your pajamas
-Ask "Why? a lot
-Make graham-cracker-and-frosting sandwiches
-Believe in fairy tales
-Have someone read you a story
-Eat dessert first
-Wear your favorite shirt with your favorite pants even if they don't
   match
-Sneak some frosting off a cake
-Refuse to back down in a "did vs. did-not argument"
-Do a cartwheel
-Get someone to buy you something you don't really need
-Hide your vegetables under your napkin
-Stay up past your bedtime
-Whatever you're doing, stop once in a while for recess
-Wear red gym shoes
-Make a "slurpy" sound with your straw when you get to the bottom of a
   milkshake
-Sit really still for as long as the dog is asleep in your lap
-Put way too much sugar on your cereal
-Play a song you like really loud, over and over
-Find some pretty stones and save them
-Let the string all the way out on your kite
-Stick your head out the car window and moo if you see a cow
-Walk barefoot in wet grass
-Make cool screeching noises every time you turn a corner
-Count the colors in a rainbow
-Fuss a little, then take a nap
-Take a running jump over a big puddle
-Eat dinner at the coffee table
-Giggle a lot for no real reason
>-Make a clover chain for someone you really "like-like"
-Stir ice-cream flavors together
-Do that -tap-someone-on-the-shoulder-while-you-stand-on-their-opposite-
   side-and-they-turn-around-and-no-one's-there thing
-Enjoy your all-time favorite candy-bar (Forget you've heard of calories!)
-Wear a ball cap backwards
-Go to the zoo
-Say "duh" when stuff is obvious
-Throw something and when it lands make a cool exploding bomb noise
-Put an orange slice in your mouth, peel side out, and smile at people
-Try to eat all the chocolate off a peanut butter cup
-Every time someone says "See you later" say "Not if I see you first" or
   "Thanks for the warning" then laugh real hard
-Whistle the theme from your favorite TV show all day
-Help your salt-and-pepper shakers talk to each other in high, squeaky
    voices
-Stay up late watching scary movies
-Buy yourself a helium balloon
-Ride a roller coaster two times in a row
-Sing the "I see London, I see France" song to someone wearing low-slung
    pants
Eat peanut butter straight out of the jar
-When your gum starts losing its flavor, spit it out and get a new piece
-Write your sweetie's initials in a chalk heart on the sidewalk
-Wave to the engineer
-Make a smiley face with your bacon and eggs
-Run through the sprinkler with all your clothes on
-Lick all the ice cream out of an ice cream sandwich before you eat the
    sandwich part
-Look down as you walk and hope to find money
-Catch lightning bugs in a jar and make a lantern
-Practice whistling through your teeth
-eat cereal any ol' time of the day you feel like it
-Yell out "opposite day!" then tell someone they're really smart
-Wear a bubble gum machine ring
-Watch a lot of TV and don't feel guilty about it
-Skip a stone across a pond
-Make somebody laugh just when they start to drink something
-Eat just the chocolate stripe out of your Neapolitan ice cream
-Ask to be excused
-Chew bubble gum
-start thinking now about what you want for your next birthday
-Sing to yourself all day
-Talk to your invisible friend
-play with your younger siblings toys
-stick your hand in the fish bowl, try to catch one...
-draw a gang of "stick-figure" persons, and call it your family!!!
-color in your favorite coloring book with your really cool box of 144
   crayons with the neato crayon sharpener
-finger-paint and make a really big mess
-buy pajamas with feet
get the giggles and laugh until it hurts
-ask someone if they like "see-food"
-when it rains, take off your shoes and squish your toes in the mud
-ask for a ring or a sticker at the dentist.
-give someone bunny ears when they're not looking.
-eat some jello, then sqwoosh it around in your mouth until it's liquid.
-blow bubbles in your milk.
-ask for a lollipop when your go through the drive thru window at the
bank.
-try to dig all the way to China in your back yard.
-play dress up in your mom's old clothes.
-Sleep with your teddy bear
-Make a tent out of blankets and chairs in your living room (or if you're
   in college and don't have a living room make a cave out of your
   bunkbeds :)
-say no to something even though you want it, just because you feel like
being stubborn
-always take time to color outside of the lines
-pray "Now I lay me down to sleep"
-say "I love you" at least once a day
-go puddle-jumping
-say exactly what you mean
-look straight up at the stars and spin around until you fall down
-end an arguement with "my dad will beat up your dad"
-get up really early in order to watch your favorite cartoon shows
-drink chocolate milk for breakfast
-Play four square and try not to get "out" before gettin gto the server's
 square.
-Make a wish upon the first star you see tonight.
-Get Chocolate Chocolate Chip ice cream and don't wipe off the mustache
 til Much Much Later...*grin* a lot.
Pout and stomp when you don't get your way.
-Scream and giggle when you do.
-Hold a worm in your palm and scream when it tries to tunnel between your
fingers
-Walk on railroad rails or curbs and don't fall into the lava below
-Run for no reason other than it feels good
-Roll down a grass slope
-Make up a word to call someone you don't like (you froo-froo-head!)
-Have a double decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch (or
breakfast, or dinner)
-Find a yard where someone has hung out sheets to dry and hide among them
-Stand out in the rain (shouldn't be hard to do in Oregon)
-When you feel like laughing, just let it roll.  Feel free to fall on the
floor.
-Hang upside-down on the monkey bars without caring if your underwear shows
-Plan to stay up all night, but fall asleep by midnight
-Take your umbrella outside on a windy day and be Mary Poppins
>-Ride the horse at King Soopers Grocery for a penny
>-Run away, but only down to the end of the block
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>-Do cartwheels down the hall at one in the morning (or some other
> inappropriate time).  Invite the RA to join you if you live in a dorm.
>-Put more marshmallows than chocolate in your cocoa.
>-Complain about food: stick your tongue out and say "Blecchhh!"
>-Bounce on your bed.  (This doesn't work in *my* dorm, but it might
> elsewhere.)
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>-build sandcastles at the beach with lots of tunnels and mountains and water
>-sleep with lots of stuffed animals
>-play tennis in the hallway
>-sing camp songs in a public place (like on the ferry)  wait for someone
>to ask you if you are in the chior
>-blow large bubble gum bubbles
>-watch sesame street or mr rogers
>-cry when you're hurt
>-draw pictures and write messages on frosty or steamy car windows
Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC, LLLeader, co-owner Lactnet, LLLOL, Corgi-L
LACTNET WWW site: http://www.mcs.com/~auerbach/lactation.html