There are so many times I’ve thought my parents did it wrong. I was right. But I was also wrong.
I’ve become a parent. And that has been the biggest growing experience I’ve ever had.
The hardest thing that I’ve learned is that I need to allow my children to experience life on their own.
I know I can’t do it for them which makes it so much harder to watch them fall. And if they don’t fall, they don’t pick themselves up and learn from it.
In many ways, I know by allowing them to fall and they will learn. And if they don’t learn here and now with me around in a safe environment, they will learn somewhere else and it may be much more painful.
So, it turns out, the moral of the story is loving someone means allowing them to grow even if it includes pain.
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