“Try to see your child as a seed that came in a packet without a label. Your job is to provide the right environment and nutrients and to pull the weeds. You can’t decide what kind of flower you’ll get or in which season it will bloom”
~Anonymous, as quoted in The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, by Wendy Mogel
by Julie Blackmon
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Christie // December 22, 2008 at 7:54 pm |
LOVE this quote. If it doesn’t sum up parenting, I don’t know what does.