When I ask parents in our online community, ‘What’s raising kids all about? Why are you doing it? What are you trying to achieve?’ The answer is normally, ‘We’re trying to raise happy, healthy kids. We want our kids to be decent human beings.’ But when we are knee deep in family life, it can be difficult to keep an eye on the bigger picture. We are so focused on everything that needs to be done in our never-ending to-do list, and we’re responding to the daily dramas that inevitably arise throughout the day. But keeping an eye on the bigger picture ...
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