Awesome Kids
Recently, I shared my story about trying to discover why my daughter has problems learning with a group of friends. For months, I have been processing, thinking, rethinking, and overthinking this whole thing. Am I overreacting? Am I just imagining this? Should I involve the public school? Should I seek private testing? Is this all really necessary? And just saying it all out loud, asking for prayer for the whole situation...it just broke open a dam. It revealed a line of thought I didn't even know was in my head: "I just want my kids to be awesome!" I said this aloud and heard it myself for the first time. Lightbulb! What parent has ever looked at their child and thought to themselves, "I just want my child to be average. I'll be happy with that." How about, "If my child is awful at everything, that would be fine." Or: "If my child never succeeds at anything, that would be o.k. with me." Doesn't that sound ...