Stripped of this deeper meaning, these encounters leave me feeling angry, depleted, and at my wit’s end as I mentally search for a “solution” to my son’s limit-testing behavior. But when I cast a net of curiosity and sift through what’s inside, I find tremendous meaning. I consider the possibility that there is no solution at all because there is no problem; there is only my inquisitive, fervent child who is just beginning to understand this world. He bumps up against the edges of it again and again to learn its shape, because what else is there for him to do? And what else is there for me to
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