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Days Of Our Lives
This Week In Gratitude
This morning my eldest left for Florida with his teachers and friends from school. It’s an educational trip filled with lots of fun activities. He was very excited about this trip. Naturally, I was nervous. But his excitement helped me relax.
I have given him instructions on what to do, what not to do, etc. Normally I would stress myself out thinking about how he is going to remember any of it or about the million different ways he could mess up in my absence. But this time I have decided to trust that he will figure it out.
He might not get to point B from point A the way I might, but he will get there. We need to trust our children. They will make mistakes. They must make mistakes. That’s their learning process. If we step in and do everything for them, then they won’t learn at all. And one day when they are forced to do it all by themselves the learning curve becomes so steep that it will terrify them.
So, as parents, it would be a wise decision to let our children make their mistakes, learn from those mistakes, correct it, and enable them to ask for help when they need it. Asking for help is an essential tool to survive life. But we fail in asking for help many times. Recognizing the need to ask for help is a vital quality in a human being.
