Life Lesson Learned
This weekend we had a minor emotional crisis to deal with in our home. We had to help our daughter learn a tough life lesson. This is something that most adults have difficulty accepting. Sometimes, even when you give your best, life is not fair and your efforts go unnoticed and unrewarded.
As a parent, I always hate to see my children hurt but I also realize that this is a part of life and a part of growing up. You cannot protect your children from these painful lessons. As a matter of fact, these are the lessons that help mold a child into an adult. The way in which they learn to handle adverse situations, allows them to grow and to learn to cope with bigger problems that life hands them. They learn to turn to family and friends for comfort, advice, and wisdom.
As luck would have it or more likely, as one of God’s coincidences as I wrote about earlier, my son decided to come home from college for a few days. He unexpectedly surprised us with this visit and I feel it was only to help her deal with her situation. As I have blogged many times, my daughter and her brother have a very special relationship. He can talk to her and comfort her when I can’t or in this situation, when she won’t allow me to. Even though he was only home for a very short while, he was exactly what she needed and he said exactly what she had to hear. So, our minor family crisis was another growing experience for both my children; one learned to comfort someone in need and the other learned to deal with an unpleasant and unfair situation. A painful event proved to be another life lesson learned.
Do your children look to each other for comfort? How do they handle their difficult times?
