What I learned as a parent

My kids didn't like the way I worried about them or saw them as projects. When I dropped that energy, life got better for all of us.

Join me in traveling back in time to an email I saved about changes I was making as a parent, while I was still parenting. I wrote this piece in 2004. My kids were 7, 9, 12, 14 and 16. These entries are for paid subscribers. More coming!

The biggest difference in how I see parenting today compared with how I saw it when my kids were young is that I’ve stopped seeing it as my job to get my kids to: be, do, say, prepare, achieve, dream, become or learn.