A fellow writer recently mentioned my blog about Doing Hard Things…Again . Click on the title if you haven’t read it. If you go there, you can find my first blog post about this topic also. I’m passionate about allowing/teaching your children to do difficult tasks, as evidenced by this third post on hard things.
My children are some of the coolest people I know. I thank God every day He chose me to be their mom, and I’m grateful for the difficult things they’ve accomplished through Him. Read those earlier posts to find out about a few of them.
Not going to miss an opportunity to slide in a picture!
I remember two occasions specifically when friends said to me, “Your kids get to do the coolest things.”
Ahm, not exactly.
Yep, they’ve done some cool things, but they don’t “get” to do them. They worked hard for those God-given opportunities.
When I look at the list of their accomplishments, do you know what I see? I see the multitude of prayers that went up on their behalf–prayers for safety and protection, strength, perseverance, wisdom, positive thinking, and just plain help. I think about the times my husband and I talked them off the ledge when crazy was knocking at the door, when we encouraged them with pep talks, when we listened hours on end while they verbally processed the pros and cons of a situation. (Children, if you’re reading this post, I’m talking about all of you, not just the first one who popped into your mind.)
They learned to do hard things under our roof with our help, and now they’re doing difficult, interesting things all over the United States and, occasionally, the world.
Do you agree or disagree that we need to let some difficulty into our children’s lives?
What difficult thing do you need to do today?
Agree that we let our children do the hard things! Amen and Amen! Kevin Leman says, “Parents, you don’t want happy children, you want grateful children that know that you held their hand through the hard things!”
Yes!