Lael Stone

I know it's been tricky of me trying to navigate, you know, for the longest time.

I thought it was this bad thing about me that, you know, when something did feel big, I had to acknowledge it and sit with it because I just can't move on until I have.

And that doesn't have to mean that I'm sitting in my room for three days straight.

I'm not doing anything.

Sometimes that's at work, going outside, taking 10 minutes to just.

sit with myself but I think it's been learning that I do things in my own time and we know that and I remember having big conversations with you about that and when something doesn't feel right I'm just not going to do it like I mean I think there's levels to that obviously there are things that you don't always want to do but you've got to do but I think it's more so that I will do things in my own time when I feel good and ready um and I think I've beat myself up about that sometimes in the past but I'm learning to love that about myself instead of you know

yeah making it wrong and i you have taught me so much about that indie like you have because even as a little girl if you were just like not going to do it you just like you're not going to do it and it doesn't matter how much i tried to play with you or convince you you were just like i'm just no and you've moved at your own pace and you know me is like okay let's go let's go let's go and you're just like i don't know i'll sit for a bit longer

And you've really taught me to trust your timing, really taught me that you would move when you're ready.

And I think that's why I reflect back and think, you know, I wish I had a little bit more slowness around you.

And I was doing the best I could and, you know, all the things.

But I realize now as I know, you know, the beautiful spirit that you are, that that's probably what you needed more of.

Whereas it's so interesting because every child is different.

Like Tali is like, here we go, like just the opposite.

Whereas you're like, no.

But I think that's why we balance well because you kind of bring me up to the whole, okay, let's get into it, let's do it, whereas I allow you to be like, take a breath.

Like when we shared a room, that was...

and very funny but i think it was those years that i'm so grateful we did share a room because we would not have the relationship we do now yeah and i remember when we first moved houses and we had our own room for the first time we would have sleepovers every night because we were like i'm happy to have my own space but also like i miss you like it's it's this strange thing i

that's so beautiful in families we're all so different you know you have an older brother too who's also different in his own way and as a parent I think both dad and I've had to learn to parent all three of you differently like we've kind of come with the same values and what we wanted but

each of you has met it in different ways.

And I think that's the thing about parenting.