Lael Stone

It asks you not to parent what you think your child should be, but to parent the child in front of you and to meet them where they are.

And I think that's been such a gift all three of you, you know, have given to us.

And there's been so much trial and error within this.

Like, you know, there's, I mean, there's plenty of times where, and I think people love to hear when I've totally messed up as a parent.

I don't know if I should ask you this question.

I'm like, okay, share all the tea on when I totally messed

But there's been times, there's been things where I've lost it because you do, you're human and I've yelled or I've like, you know, just been like, no.

I remember one time, Tali, I don't know if you remember this, you were little and you had all these feelings going on and I was just like done.

I had nothing left.

Like I was just kind of like, oh my God, I just don't want you to just, I'm just like over it.

And I remember turning to you and saying, do you want some chocolate?

Like I was trying to bribe you with sugar to stop just having feelings.

And you look at me and you said, I don't want sugar.

I want you to listen to my feelings.

And I was like, oh my God, I've created a monster.

But it was so beautiful and it made me laugh so much I was able to kind of drop into it.

But I think you brought out this really be present with me because that's what we're trying to do.

Yet it was confronting at times.

And that's things that I say to parents all the time.

We're not superhuman.