Parenting is trust. Trusting your instinct. Trusting your partner. Guarding your children’s trust. Encouraging them to trust friends, but cautioning them not to trust too much. Teaching them to trust you. Trusting them to achieve milestones when they are ready. It is sacred, this trust within family. I look at our girls and find myself living and breathing by my ability to deserve their trust, to be worthy. Don’t use the phone in the car, don’t make empty promises (or threats). Let them test and explore. Let them become acquainted with their own instinct. Trust that they’ll forgive me. Trust that they’ll come back to me. This heightened awareness of trust gives me pause in every day life. Spending so much of my time…
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