Miss Independent

Erin is 9, and is at an age where she waffles back and forth between wanting to be treated like a child and wanting to do more things by and for herself. I'm all for the latter, and have been trying to teach her more skills to allow her to take care of herself and things around the house. Once in a while, though, she surprises me with what she wants to learn to do. This afternoon, it was drying her hair. Now usually she fights me tooth and nail about having her hair dried at all, so I figure if she wants to do it herself, that's fine by me!