Messages sometimes come to me in my dreamtime. This came last night:
It is not our children’s job
to do as we tell them.
It is our job
as their parents, teachers, elders, guides
to illustrate to them
why we have made the suggestion.
It is our job
to provide our children
with as much information as we can
to empower them to think for themselves
to instil within them,
a deep-seated sense of their own self-worth
and an eye to their own moral compass.
And then, it is our job
to step lovingly aside
steadfastly supporting them
as they decide for themselves
what paths of their own
they will carve into this world.