Catherine Wallace writes, “Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”3 Some of the best parents I know are the ones who can empathize with their children and remember what it felt like to be their age. They don’t talk down to their kids; they affirm what their children are thinking and let them know they understand and they care.
