I can't wait to read your book, Deborah! I've also been thinking lately -- okay, for the last 20 years in which I've been a parent -- about how much anxiety gets in the way of allowing ourselves to experience these moments. The lists of things that need to be done, worries about how our kids measure up, death and injury.....all of it. The best advice I wish I'd gotten was to just assume that everything was going to be fine and live in the moment. This is all to say that I wish I'd allowed myself to experience more awe in those moments, but the good news is that parenting is a lifelong job and I hope to have many more years in which I can learn to do so.
"The best advice I wish I'd gotten was to just assume that everything was going to be fine and live in the moment." I love this reflection, Rebecca. Its so easy to spend so much of our mental time living in the future. One thing I love about awe is that is so often tied to our sensory system -- what we see and hear. It's found in the moment right in front of us.
I can't wait to read your book, Deborah! I've also been thinking lately -- okay, for the last 20 years in which I've been a parent -- about how much anxiety gets in the way of allowing ourselves to experience these moments. The lists of things that need to be done, worries about how our kids measure up, death and injury.....all of it. The best advice I wish I'd gotten was to just assume that everything was going to be fine and live in the moment. This is all to say that I wish I'd allowed myself to experience more awe in those moments, but the good news is that parenting is a lifelong job and I hope to have many more years in which I can learn to do so.
"The best advice I wish I'd gotten was to just assume that everything was going to be fine and live in the moment." I love this reflection, Rebecca. Its so easy to spend so much of our mental time living in the future. One thing I love about awe is that is so often tied to our sensory system -- what we see and hear. It's found in the moment right in front of us.