If I Knew I’d Be Hit With a Meteor Tomorrow…

The smartest piece of advice I ever heard was second-hand from a grandmother. A woman I knew was getting her kids off to school, totally exhausted. The next-door neighbor, a grandmother, was watching her. When the kids all headed off, the mother shook her head and sighed “parenting is HARD.”

The older woman smiled. “Parenting isn’t hard,” she said. “Its just DAILY.”

That’s it. You have to be there, take the heat, hold the hands, dry the tears. Love them so hard their emotional gas tanks are full for a lifetime of struggle.