As we begin the 2010-11 school year, I’m needing to remind myself of this:
As parents it is important to allow our children to fail, to fall down and to be disappointed. Sound harsh? Believe it or not, it actually helps our kids build their self-esteem when we refrain from “saving” them from life.
What have you done when your child has left his or her lunch/homework/gym shorts at home??!?!! Do you remember being a kid and learning from life when it gave you a skinned knee or two? I’d love to hear about it.
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Suzanne Tucker, aka Zen Mommy
In addition to mommying to two magical girls born in 2000 and 2003 and twins born in February of 2010, Suzanne co-owns a holistic health center with her husband Shawn in St. Louis, Missouri where she practices as a physical therapist, Certified Infant Massage Instructor and health education teacher. Certified in a number of healing and life education approaches, Suzanne is the co-creator of the Yoga Parenting approach to positive parenting.
How hard I worked to have children to hold never thinking about how much more difficult it would be to learn to let go!
isn’t that the truth?!?!?!?!?! beautifully put diane.
So hard to let go, but so neccessary. Falling is how they learn.
So loved that book! You’ll love it too!
What a great message!
I had an experience with this last week. My 6yo left his BABW bag of goodies at a restaurant. He had made all these really cool paper airplanes and was selling them to our neighbors. He had his entire stock and $2 in there.
But he didn’t realize he had left it until the next morning. We didn’t go back.
One good quote I try to remember is this one, “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. “-Dorothy C. Fisher