Raising Independent Children By Letting Them Fail

Abbey Fatica
The Instinct
Published in
4 min readOct 6, 2018

Photo by Tracey Hocking on Unsplash

Beep, beep, beep! It must be 7am and that is my daughter’s alarm going off. I wait a couple minutes to see if she emerges from her cave. Some days she does but this time she doesn’t. That means she turned off her alarm and laid back down.

I wait and nothing.

A few minutes later I hear stirring but it’s from one of her brothers, then another and finally…

Abbey Fatica
The Instinct

Writer, Author, Lover of all words and exclamation points!!! My children are the inspiration to my voice. Connect with me: http://abbeyfatica.com