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Jigsaw puzzles are a huge part of Life around The Magical Creatures. And, I have found, have many major lessons to teach us. I strongly urge everyone out there to find a jigsaw puzzle and then proceed to put it together with the under twelve crowd.
We just finished a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle as a family hours before the dining room table would be required for Thanksgiving dinner. Every member spent time with said puzzle.
When I sat with any of my granddaughters and worked on the puzzle with them — one lesson became apparent:
Many of the pieces I thought fit together did not.
I forced pieces into place because I thought they belonged there. My granddaughters — with their open minds — saw the subtle differences and were able to remove what didn’t fit to find the correct placement of the piece. They were not working from a preconceived notion of what the thing was supposed to look like. They were able to look at that tiny bite — that moment in time — as an observer not invested in the outcome — and remove what didn’t work. Which, of course, then allowed what did work to flow into place.
How often do we try to work around pieces that simply don’t fit?
