A Gardener...not a Sculptor

"I used to think that my kids were blobs of clay and my job as a parent was to mold them according to a societal checklist of expectations.  But after a while, I realized that that’s not the gig at all.  Just not at all.

Kids aren’t clay and parents aren’t sculptors.  It is not our job to make our kids into our idea of what they should be.

Maybe we are more like gardeners.  Who our kids are meant to become are already in the seeds of them, after all.

So, maybe our sacred duty is to carefully nurture the kind of loving, healthy, open soil that allows them to slowly grow.  And we…in reverence and awe…get to watch them bloom and guide them through the storms as they grow stronger and stronger and more beautifully, perfectly themselves."

- Glennon Doyle