parenting thoughts:

What’s interesting about parenting, especially a teenager, is that you often want more for your child than they want for themselves. I think that may come from them not really knowing how to get what they want. That uncertainty leaves them paralyzed, unresponsive to the very actions that could move them toward success.

I often think about how some kids just seem innately wired to succeed. For them, it looks natural. They know the flow of the river & how to move with it. Others, though, drift helplessly with the current, getting caught in the still-water eddies, stalled out. When they do find the ambition to move, it’s with brute force… yet soon enough, they are drifting again.

What is that difference? Ambition? Tenacity? Fortitude? Intellect? Or maybe it’s simply that some look at the map and don’t know where to go, so they go nowhere at all… wandering, circling.