Life Lessons

I read a little blurb in a magazine recently about the power of thought and applying thinking to life. I found myself ripping the page out of the magazine for the purpose of one day sharing this 1 page with Sam and Jake. Today in a book I am reading there was a line about kindness, and how there isn't much point in giving-or putting up with-anything else. I thought; this is something I'd like for Sammy and Jake to know some day. I think we might as well tack on an extra room in our new house to store all of these treasures that we want to share with our children at some point.

How can we possibly remember all these things we want to teach our children and how can we possibly provide them with all the real life examples needed to instill values and morals in our children? We'd drive ourselves nuts if we tried; it's probably more true to say that we'd drive our kids nuts.

I moved out of my parents house to go to college nearly 16 years ago. Since the day I went to college, every time my mom sends me mail she includes a card with quote, or life lesson. I now have hundreds of these life lesson cards that remind me of the "Life's Little Instruction" books.

As parents we can only do so much and then we have to turn the kids over to the world, to the people that they will meet. This is the part of parenting that I think is so hard because we want to be able to mold and shape our kids and protect them from the world, but we have to let them go so that they can thrive and have their own life experiences.