I read somewhere once that one of the most important jobs of a parent is to plant the right "voices" in your kids' minds, which they then internalize and use as an internal "compass" (excuse the mixed metaphor) for self-esteem, self-identity, resiliency, courage, risk-taking, etc.
Today, at the playground, Emma was climbing up a high and very wobbly rope ladder, and we had been cheering her on.
Sometime around the 10th climb up, we got some idea of what we had been planting in her head. She looked down at us, grinning and said, "I doing a great job!"
Yes, you are, little one. Yes you are.
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