Lael Stone

I'm trying to think of...

growing up is it bad that i just don't really have an answer like i mean that makes me look really good i know but then i'm trying to think amazing but i guess again obviously there was i mean i'm so grateful for the way that we were raised and everything that we've had we are so so lucky to have lived the way we have but i think with that of course yeah it was not perfect i think i had a lot of friends i remember having friends who there would be times i'd be like i don't know arguing with dad or kai or whatever it was

And friends would just straight up be like, well, you don't have any right to talk about that because your life is perfect or your family's perfect.

I'm like, that's, you know, I'm so grateful for you guys and what we have, but that is not the case.

You know, there were times we all butted heads that we didn't get along, that stuff was really big, big emotions, big feelings.

But I think, again, it was just over the years, I think we've all gotten so much better at recognizing our own feelings and being able to take a step back and be like, okay, I'm heightened right now.

Let me exit this situation and revisit it later.

But I think the only thing I guess I'd change more so was, I mean, it's hard because I look back on it and I'm like,

I was being a little brat or I was doing this, doing that, but you're meant to do that.

Like you're a teenager and you're just learning.

And I think really it's been a journey of us all trying to understand how we work cohesively together.

But all the mistakes and the things that happened, I wouldn't change because it has led us to where we are now, I guess.

I was feeling so valid.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Totally.

That's so true, isn't it?

It's real and it's relative for where you're at at the time.

And, you know, I think...

And I, you know, I think probably what I see too is particularly these last few years as I have worked a lot more, like I was really a stay-at-home mum with you guys for a long time and could be really present.

And I really want to just frame this too for people listening.