The Golfers and How to Cool Up Hand Me Downs!

my husband is little bit brilliant...although he is the only boy among his siblings and did not have to share his boyish toys to the extent these three will have to, he knows how to make hand-me-downs seem cooler than they are.

bryson just turned 5 this week and for his birthday he received a big boy set of golf clubs...a VERY nice set of clubs...like when bryan told me how much he spent on them i was a little taken aback... but its an "investment" he assured me...ummm..mmm...hmmm...okay...if you say so, honey! bryan also took him to the "big boy" course (a local par 3 - they only did the front 9) and he started his next level of golf classes. so this has all been very exciting (for them) of course. 

Part of our dilemma in our household right now is how to encourage sharing, but also how to keep the "bigger boy" toys separate from the "little boy" toys. bodie should not in any way be playing with bryson's clubs - bryson also needs to learn how to care for *very* nice things/property. so bryan was very intentional with this...

first he took bryson's old clubs and had them shortened at the golf shop...then he spray painted the club part white to appear new and he got them re-gripped and lastly, he got Bodie his very own new standing bag. 

to help show Bodie the difference of ownership, Bryan had me print out some pictures of the boys and attach them to their bags to show "this is Bryson's!" and "this is Bodie's"

and it worked so well! i was so blown away! we all made a very big deal of bodie's clubs and you could tell he felt pretty dern cool...

i love that bryan's brain thinks this way - i would have just given him the old clubs and be all like, deal...these boys are very lucky to have such a creative and thoughtful daddy!