Fix Parenting

That parent who non-stop is bragging about their kids, how annoying! I used to be one of those. My child can do this, or that. My child is so smart. How do we go from being a bragger to a failure in only a decade or two? 

I had it all wrong. I thought, if my child is doing great then I must be also. What a great parent I am, I have so much to share. The truth is I hit a roadblock. The hardest thing to go through, is when you realize your child missed curfew and you need to call the police. Its like the nightmare that you never think can happen to you. Early on learning how to swaddle your baby, becomes your accomplishment. But the reality is that the baby only stays neatly swaddled if they stay still. When the baby wiggles, moves and makes a mess of themselves its no longer your accomplishment, they wrecked it. At some point in the delivery room the cord gets cut, but somehow we reattach it, taking credit and failure where we shouldn’t. It’s so hard for some parents to see where their responsibilities begin and end.