Friday, January 25, 2013

I Think I Can, I Think I Can

I read this plea to other parents about not helping her child at the playground over at Alameda dot Patch dot com. You can read the entire thing at that site here. Here's a snippet:

"Because, as they grow up, the ladders will only get taller, and scarier, and much more difficult to climb. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather help them learn the skills they'll need to navigate them now, while a misstep means a bumped head or scraped knee that can be healed with a kiss, while the most difficult of hills can be conquered by chanting, "I think I can, I think I can", and while those 15 whole feet between us still feels, to them, like I'm much too far away." -Kate Bassford Baker

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