23/07/2026
18 Birthdays is all you get to be a positive influence in your children’s lives.
This is one of those realisations that help keep things in perspective as a parent.
18 years to install, instruct and influence your children to know that they are worthy of a good life.
To teach them as best you can to be a good human.
To guide them to find their inner strength and to help them to trust themselves in the world.
To help them feel comfortable in their own head.
To allow space for their voice to matter.
To watch quietly as they bump their heads, have their heart broken, feel deeply disappointed, rejected, sad.
And most of all to live them so fiercely that there is no doubt in their heart that they are enough.
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