When Your Daughter Calls: “I Want to Let You Know I’m OK But…”

To be a mom is to continually manage the fierce mama bear feelings that make us want to sprint to our child’s rescue, kiss away their tears, and band-aid away their pain. How do we know when to act on this instinct? And how to know when to push our internal pause button in order to give them the space they need to pick themselves up when they fall and, as they get older, to lean on other support systems they’ve developed?

We don’t always know. But our hearts will guide us if we really listen....