How to Celebrate the Wins
Parenting is a thankless job
Parenting is one of the toughest jobs I’ll ever love.
From one day to the next it is a roller coaster kind of adventure with highs and lows, twists and turns that will sometimes make you travel through a corkscrew.
Anyone who ever says parenting is an easy job is a liar. The pay is low, and although the rewards are high, you’ll often work two or three jobs, be on call at all hours of the day and night and never get the thanks you deserve.
Still, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
See your kids as imperfect and wired for struggle.
Your kids will struggle. It’s that simple. If you don’t let them struggle as kids, then they will struggle in more significant ways as adults. Fixing everything for them as they go through life creates an adult who is not resilient enough to handle conflict.
Everyone knows there is conflict in the world. Even kids know this. They don’t always get along with neighbor friends or friends at school. To shelter them from working through conflict is to do them a disservice.
Learning how to deal with conflict is a life skill.
