Here’s Why Running is the Perfect Metaphor for Parenting

So it was a little over five years ago, when my oldest daughter was only fifteen, that we ran our first 10K road race together. It was the Tufts 10K race in Boston and even though we’d been running together for years, that race was a biggie. Not only was it the furthest she’d ever run up to that point, but, with over seven thousand people running, it was also the largest and most intimidating race she had ever run. And it was also the day when it finally dawned on me that running may just be...