We’re super heroes to our kids, in most cases. At least at the beginning.
I’d like to think I’ve retained a bit of my super hero-ness for my 5 and 3 year old’s, but I also believe that being an example that shows just how squishy things are helps children trust themselves, love themselves, and gives them more margin for testing and discovering who they are.
I’d trade everything for being a Papi.
It’s exhausting, challenging, exciting, amazing, overwhelming, humbling, and incredible to be a parent. I also think that we soften the blows, round the edges, and provide a more practical, apt, and functional view of life and the world when we model the ways in which our experience doesn’t fit into tidy little boxes.
When we show that you can color outside the lines, blur things, and approach life like a multiple exposure photograph, we show our children (and ourselves) that alignment is something that happens when we engage enough to participate, to co-exist in space and contribute.
Life is pudding, move it around.