You know what? No one ever said raising kids was easy. No one ever said life was easy! I remember when we brought Cali home from the hospital as a baby. Brian put her in the middle of the living room floor in her infant car seat. We looked at each other and said, "now what?" She didn't come home from the hospital with a manual!
Thankfully, we made it through the diapers and toddler years and even grade school without too many battle wounds but now we are in the middle school/tween years and it's a whole new ball game. We are definitely in need of a manual!
We can sail along for weeks, even months without so much as a bump in the road and then all of the sudden we hit a wall and everything comes crashing down. It seems as though it may be the end of the world for our little tween but thankfully for her, her dad and I have been there.
It's so hard to see your kids learn lessons the hard way; you know, the kind that involves tears and or discipline? There are some days when I wonder if they will ever learn!
But as hard as it is to see them hurting or to discipline them for their actions, it's important to let them learn by falling and by dealing with the consequences of their choices.
Easier said than done.
Rather than coddling, we just love them through everything. Sometimes it's tough love too.
Maybe they didn't come home from the hospital with a manual but God provided us with his word and it tells us that love covers all. So we love them when they do right, love them when they do wrong, love them when they are joyful, love them when they are hurting and sad. Just love them through it.
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