I'm feeling immensely proud of both of my children at the moment for myriad reasons. When I grow up I want to be like them. With less screen time.
"You can strive to be like them but you cannot make them just like you", a line from a Sweet Honey in the Rock song, "on children".
I think this is true not only of how we feel about our offspring, but about all other people we encounter. Some of us are sometimes tempted to wish others were like us, making the same sort of decisions we would, acting the way we think people "ought to". Celebrating our diversity of thoughts beliefs and actions can get hard when we wish people behaved more like we did :) I wonder what the world would look like if instead of merely tolerating the fact that other people are not the same as us, we genuinely rejoiced that others have different priorities, different responses. I know I find it hard to actively delight in this at times (There's part of me that's hard to shift that sense that I know best!!) so will look to see where I find it possible today :D
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