Finding the Yes (From the Parenting Pit)

I know it can be hard sometimes.

In fact over the years I’ve been through periods when I thought that “the Yes” have become extinct. They can be slippery buggers – sometimes so small and great at hiding. Its as though you’ve got to feel them first… believe in them… then maybe, just maybe you might start to see them.

Not like finding “the No”. They are so easy to see and so numerous that I used to think that I would drown in them. I’m sure my daughter felt the same way a few years back and even today I find my self swatting unwanted ones away.

Things are improving though – these days when one of my children asks for something I try to pause, to think and even enroll their help in searching for “the Yes”.

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