When did I pick up the trait of dream squashing? My daughter Kylee wants to build a fort in the back yard out of scrap wood, stones, mud and all other things messy. She was so excited. She had it all planned out exactly how she would do it. I quickly told her this would not be possible for it would make a mess and we would just be tearing it down soon. Wow, there’s a good pick me up. Go after your dreams sweetheart, but don’t do it in my back yard, and not with my scrap wood. I need someone to take a piece of that wood and hit me upside the head.
In crazy pursuit of the unattainable goal of having things that don’t matter be in perfect order, you quickly loose sight of substance. Isn’t it interesting that we can lie our heads down at night on false security that all is in order, while in reality our relationships are a mess.
I now turn my words to Kylee.
I want you to build your fort. Build it the best way you know how. Enjoy every moment of it. And when it is all done, I hope you’ll invite me in to share moments and lemonade.
I love you Kylee.
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Boy does that ring true. Slowly I'm becoming accustomed to the messes and chaos that result from letting my kids spread their little wings and try stuff in life. Hopefully I'll be as patient with them as my parents were with me.
Let me know when she is done making it, I wanna play in it.
I believe that we all squash dreams without realizing it.
We squash the dreams of our family, friends, and probably the most important dream that we squash is our own dreams. This is probably the easiset of dreams to squash, and probably the one that we squash the most.
So hard to be a perfect parent...but I do know we sometimes have to let them make their own mistakes and learn from them. This seems innocuous enough.
and you are NOT helping her build it ? Why?
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