What happens when succulents meet a mischievous kid?

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Author: Honghong / Compiled by: Succulent Plant Atlas

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I am a full-time mother, and my daily routine is just coaxing the kid and taking the kid out to play. Once a friend invited me to her home as a guest, and I discovered that she actually kept lots of beautiful succulents. When I was leaving, my friend even gave me a pot of small Graptopetalum paraguayense seedlings she had propagated from leaves herself. I never expected that this one pot of small succulents would plunge me into a bottomless succulent pit from which I could never escape!

This is that original Graptopetalum paraguayense grown big. At the time there were three of them in a small black square pot. Because I had no experience, two died, and now only one is left. I repotted it and raised it, and it is already a small old stem!

Raising succulents while taking care of a kid is not easy either. The kid is still small and always clings to me asking to be held. Every time new succulents arrive, when I trim the roots, she grabs the scissors from me and says she wants to help! No way around it, I can only give her a particularly small pair of scissors, and pull off a flower stalk for her to cut and play with, otherwise I would not be able to get any work done!

When potting the succulents, she is even busier than I am. Holding my small tool shovel, she keeps scooping soil from the big pot and putting it into her little flower pot. It is unavoidable that soil gets all over the floor, and every time I am the one who cleans up the mess in the end. Telling her again and again not to touch Mom's things is simply casting pearls before swine.

Sometimes when I hold the pot to take photos of the succulents, she sees it and hurries down from the bed to put on her shoes, not even watching cartoons anymore, insisting on taking photos of the succulents with me. No way around it, I give her my old phone and let her take photos of the succulents too. Sometimes she even fights me for the pot, and while looking she pats the succulents with her hand, saying, wow, so pretty!

Every time this happens, I worry that she will press my succulents and damage them. I always say anxiously, gentle, gentle, do not press the flowers and break them! Every time her dad is nearby, he complains that I am nagging, saying, are the succulents important or is the child's happiness important? I say nonsense, it is easy for you to say, they are not your flowers!

Once it rained, and I brought the succulents inside and blew off the raindrops one by one. The mischievous kid insisted on grabbing them from me, saying, Mom, let me help! Helplessly, I left one pot for her to blow the raindrops off, and I went to the kitchen to boil water.

I really overestimated her love for succulents. From her behavior I thought she liked succulents, but unexpectedly, when I turned around and came back from the kitchen, I saw that a pot of Baby Toes had already become completely bare with only stems left, and a pile of leaves was scattered beside it. I was so angry at the time that I could not hold it in and slapped her little hand.

The mischievous kid likes watering the succulents most. Every time I water the succulents on the balcony, she hugs my leg and begs me to let her water them. But if I really leave it to her, she cannot water them well and always gets water all over the floor. So I let her use a small spray bottle to spray water on the flowers.

And she cannot spray my succulents either, so I played a little trick and let her spray her dad's flowers. The mischievous kid sprayed with great delight, spraying one after another, and only stopped when there was no water left in the spray bottle.

Sometimes when I take the mischievous kid out to play, by noon when it is time to eat she still is not willing to come back, telling me she has not played enough. I know that being cooped up upstairs every day is boring too, so I indulge her and let her play a little longer. But when it gets too late and she still will not go back, I use my trump card and say, let's go back and water the flowers! This works best, and she obediently comes back with me. Once back, I definitely will not really let her water them, and instead distract her with TV cartoons!

Once a friend came to the house to play, and I let her accompany the auntie to look at the succulents I raise. The mischievous kid excitedly pulled the auntie along, pointing at the balcony flowers and introducing them: this is Mom's flower, this is Dad's flower, this is my flower. I looked and realized that when I was planting, she imitated me and planted a pot herself from one I had thrown away, and she still treats it like a treasure and keeps it together with mine.

The mischievous kid has grown a bit older now and has her own ideas, but she is more and more disobedient. Once, not long after I potted a mixed arrangement, I was delighted that they had all settled into the pot, and I looked and looked and could not get enough. In the afternoon I discovered that at some point one had been pulled out roots and all, and several leaves had been broken off too.

There is no need to guess, it was definitely the mischievous kid. Furious, I scolded her, asking why she pulled it out!? The mischievous kid still grinned cheekily at me. I made as if to hit her, and she even made faces at me, stuck out her tongue and said, 'you can't hit me, you can't hit me'! It really made me not know whether to laugh or cry!

The mischievous kid is almost three years old, and after this autumn she can be sent to kindergarten. By then I can finally water the succulents and pull off dead leaves without sneaking around! Then when I have time I can also study painting pots myself. Haha, with no one disturbing me, I can do whatever I want, and just thinking about it feels so cozy!

I wrote this article while the mischievous kid was asleep, and soon it will be almost midnight again. If I did not take advantage of her being asleep, she would definitely fight me for the phone. Through this article I recall bit by bit along the way, and I find that raising succulents together with a mischievous kid, although most of the time I get angry, is also a different kind of happiness when I think about it!

Finally, closing with a photo of the mischievous kid watering the flowers, I wish all the friends who, like me, have a mischievous kid at home, that the succulents and the cute baby both grow up healthy, happy and strong!

Village Chief's rambling: My little princess is also a bit over two years old, and usually when she sees me watering the succulents or potting and changing soil, she always cannot help wanting to help nearby. Watching the little one 'helping in the wrong way' also warms my heart, because who else is the flesh of my heart but her~

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