When my kids go to bed at night, before I leave the room, I almost always say, “Thank you for choosing me.” This phrase came to me when I was reading a book called The Conscious Parent by Shefali Tsabary. In her book, Tsabary argues that we have traditionally gotten a key element of parenting backward. We have been taught to think that kids come into the world and it is our job to mold them, guide them, and help turn them into the people they’re meant to be. Tsabary believes that our job is not to make our children better; rather, our children are opportunities for us to become better, to
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