The Most Important Thing About Parenting

 

I recently confided to John Tarrant, a Zen Buddhist teacher based in Santa Rosa, California, that some days my worries about how climate change might affect my children and others — and my seeming inability to do anything of great consequence about it — felt immobilizing and, ultimately, of no use.

His simple but wise response offered a sense of relief that has stayed with me. It also reminded me of the most important thing about parenting, whether one is thinking about climate change or any of the many challenges parents and their children confront today.

Read the whole (little) piece, published yesterday on FinerMinds.

Filed under: Children/Parenting, Climate change, Spirituality Tagged: Buddhism, Children, climate change, environment, Parenting, Zen