Hello Everyone.
If there is one thing I have learned about being a parent it's that you cannot control your kids. You can offers suggestions and influence them through your words and actions. You can present diversions or explain the likely consequences of what they are doing but when all is said and done, they still have minds of their own and will do what they want.
In our house, we do our best to protect Neva and Milo from danger, not experience. The many and varied outcomes of doing so have been the source of many of these stories and often have humorous results.
I think the key to parenting is to pay attention, to help when help is needed and to resist the urge to parent at every opportunity. Nobody I know enjoys being constantly told how and what to do and children are the same. We are entrusted with the welfare of our children, to provide guidance and teach life skills. Trying to do our best is mandatory yet, though our intentions are good, we can do too much.
Happy sweeping,
Bob Gunther
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