Parenting isn’t as much about them as it is about you. Don’t matter who they are or who they want to be, you love and support them. Make space for it, understand? Not just raising them, but changing ourselves in the process. We spend too much time trying to wedge our children into something we think is right rather than following their lead. I don’t want my child to carry what I carry, to feel what I feel. I want Zu to be free. And the only way to be free is to set them free. ‘Go on,’ I say. ‘Go on and be,’ and I make the space for them to be. That means moving my own shit—baggage, fears,
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