AND SUDDENLY YOU'RE 26-27 SITTING ALONE IN YOUR ROOM, PARENTS ARE OLD, YOUR SIBLINGS ARE MARRIED AND BUSY WITH THEIR OWN FAMILIES AND THERE'S NO ONE YOU CAN TALK TO AND NO ONE CHECKS ON YOU.
WHAT IS IT CALLED — LONELINESS OR FREEDOM. WHATEVER IT IS, IT IS HEAVY.
LOVE ON YOUR KIDS. Be sweet to them. Say nice things. Sing to them. Do things they enjoy. Watch their favorite shows. Take them on trips. Speak life into them. Tell them how intelligent they are. How beautiful and handsome they are. How super they are. They need to hear it. They have bad days too. They want to feel special too. Make them feel wanted and cared for. Because some grown adults are still healing from what they didn’t get as kids.
I want my child to outdo me in every way. Be smarter. Go further. Heal faster. Win bigger. I’m not raising a mini-me, I’m raising an upgraded edition. A BETTER version.