My kids are growing up, I see evidence of that everyday. Today though, I thought we'd try something new. I took the kids and one of their friends downtown and dropped them off with a map of where they could and couldn't go and let them have at it.
They took trax, walked, got lost and found again. They had a blast, and came back, I think, a little more confident in themselves.
I think before school starts, we're going to do that one more time, and do a photo scavenger hunt as well.
The next few years are going to be critical. I hope that if I give them the opportunity to go on adventures to spread their wings and give just a little nudge without completely kicking them out of the nest, they will learn to be more responsible and confident because I trusted them to enough that they could make good choices, and when they make mistakes, they will know that they are capable of fixing them.
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