When I was a child, my mother would NOT do my dirty work for me. 👧🏻
In episode 055 of the Cafe Grit podcast, I explore my mom's GRIT and how she helped shape who I am today.
As much as I wanted my mother to step in when I was uncomfortable, she would not. Instead, she supported the decisions I made but insisted that I take responsibility for them.
Like calling my piano teacher and letting her know I wanted to quit my lessons.
Mom was fine with my choice but she wasn't going to quit for me. I was horrified. But I did it.
Working through that discomfort - over and over - was important.
I didn't appreciate what my mom was doing until well into adulthood. I even harbored moderate resentment, seeing other parents around me coming to their kids' rescue time and time again.
As I get older (and ostensibly, wiser), I see how my mom raised me and my siblings in a new light. I can clearly see how those things that irritated the p1ss out of me when I was young make perfect sense.
And now I am forever grateful for her lessons.
Have you come to appreciate a parent or loved one in a new light as you get older? What did you resent as a child that you fully understand as an adult (and for some of you, maybe as a parent yourself)?