The Mercury / Wednesday
The points of a Brave Parent
Please join me in reading this to your children…. / kindly add your own to the list….
When I say I love you, despite my many failings, I want you to know what I really mean:
1. I will seek your highest good even if it causes you necessary pain.
2. I will do all I can to encourage you in pursuing your God-given freedoms.
3. I will treasure your gifts, skills, aspirations, and get out of your way so you may achieve them.
4. I will get “in your face” and in your way if it appears you are willing to waste your potential.
5. I will support your desire for education and apply my efforts to help you secure it.
6. I will unconditionally love your friends as if they were treasured family.
7. I will resist any semblance of laziness I detect within you and offer it no cooperation at all.
8. I will try not to over-protect you and therefore suggest you are incapable of being without me.
9. I will try not to under-protect you and therefore leave you vulnerable for challenges that, at this point in your young life, you are yet unprepared to face.
10. I will listen to you, yet constantly remind you that it is more important that you listen to me.
11. I will show you how I interact with God and invite you to participate and ask you to give thoughtful respect towards my tradition. (Wes Whitesell)
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