Parenting

I can see that the bulk of my work with my daughter (at the age of ten) is almost ‘done’. That is a surprise for me.

She is a good person, she cares about others, she socialises well, she has the capacity to be self-aware, and she understands that she needs to work to achieve results. She is doing quite well at school with minimal parental input. She listens when she has to.

She has faults, but these are relatively minor, and ones that with a bit of life experience and a bit of parental input, she will surmount.

I am sure there will be dramas and critical moments in the next ten years where parental guidance is absolutely required. But the ground work has been done.

I had no idea that the first ten years would be so overwhelmingly important. But, just in case, I will revisit this entry in another ten years…