My middle child was drawing with one of her younger cousins, and the cousin was getting frustrated about making mistakes. My daughter said to her: “That’s okay. Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.”
What wisdom this child possesses!
Good reasoning and patience have a tendency to snowball. Teach those things early, and very, very quickly your children will become smarter than you could have dreamed. They’re already all much smarter than I am, a fact that brings me tremendous joy.
I’ve made plenty of mistakes while raising them, of course. But that just proves I’m trying.
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