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Wanting To Help Your Adulting Children
But Needing To Not
One of the hardest parts of being a parent is
watching your children face adversity and
knowing that there comes a time where they
must travel the journey alone. It is their life.
You support, comfort, and encourage them,
but you cannot fix what they are facing, even
though you want to so badly. It is at this
point, that the apron string that you have
nurtured and used to keep them close
breaks.
This has been a reality for every generation of
parents. The price of independence is a
bittersweet one of pride and sadness. The
most rewarding aspect of parenting,
however, is witnessing the strength, courage,
determination, and adaptability of children
as they navigate successfully through their
personal challenges.
Life Is Full Of Lessons
/ B Y L I S A D I A N E
They muster the bravery to face another day
even though it may bring disappointments.
Even though their friends hurt them they
find loyalty a lesson deep within their being.
They decide to just go for their dream even
though there is no guarantee of success, and
they smile and laugh because they know that
the good in this world far outweighs the bad.
We commend and celebrate their resiliency
and drive to persist and figure out life
.
There are many lessons our children cannot
learn in a classroom. They only learn them by
going through life experiences and all that it
entails. I watch our kids, and those I have had
the privilege of knowing, chase goals I was
never daring enough to dream. They are
inspiring, awesome, and powerful.
Today's children have a burden to bear that
we did not have growing up. They are under
the microscope of the Internet. The loss of
privacy through technology creates a
generation that documents every success,
failure, accomplishment, and mistake.
Lessons are harder to recover from and tough
to shoulder.
Their world is full of critic - keyboard warriors
hiding behind the anonymity of the
computer. The sarcastic nastiness is spewed
without any regard for compassion or
understanding.
So we offer a toast to our youth who are our
future, you are fascinating and intelligent
and brave. You inspire me to try a little
harder every day. And to our two children
who make us proud unconditionally, it is a
privilege to call you ours - you are our life and
our love.
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