No one in the Saenz household is a morning person, so every day has the potential to start off with some difficulty.
I sit on the edge of my bed and stare for about 30 minutes every morning as I put on my socks. My daughter is the same way.
My wife does all the hard work — helping her get dressed and fed. But, as a one-car family, I get to drive her to school.
On the way to school, she’s either silent or she talks my ear off. On those silent days, she likes when I put on her favorite tunes, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.
The music instantly activates her. It does to her what chugging a pot of coffee or shotgunning Red Bulls would do for me.
She starts to sing along, and I listen to her instead of the music. It’s fun to see her growing up and experiencing the art that will make her the person she will one day become.
By the time we get to her school she’s ready to run in the building and learn while I’m stuck singing “Soda Pop” the rest of the day.
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Enrique Saenz has been a parent for 8 years, but he’s still trying to figure it out. You can reach him at enrique.saenz@mirrorindy.org.
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