… And neither do we.
I love the quote of Les Brown about perfection because perfection as Santa Clause does not exist, in the same way the perfect father or mother don’t exist, we are only regular humans who seek to do the best we can and of course improve our skills as mothers / parents over time.
Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.
–Les Brown
So definitely our children cann’t be perfect, each have different skills and everyone is special. As I wrote last week, many times we may help our kids because definitely none born knowing how to walk or to read, but as mothers we must teach them how to learn from mistakes.
But how do we teach this? When we are vulnerable to our own mistakes «Mom, you forgot to take me to the birthday party» and accept the mistakes «Oh, I’m sorry those days I was a bit distracted and I forgot about it.» We teach that nobody is perfect.
When we seek a solution together to improve the next time, ‘ I think if we put the invitation card in a place where we both can see it, I wont forget about it.» In that moment, we showed to our kids we can always improve and become better over time.
When one of our kids break or spill something instead of looking who was the guilty, lets solve the problem together, that way we will be teaching a lesson that they can take the rest of their lives.
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.
-Rachel Bermingham
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