Parents, Get Perspective

Photo by 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič on Unsplash

Perspective comes in half-naked conversations in the bathroom.

I was talking to my husband about our 11-year-old’s tearful breakdown at the breakfast table. She had been working on a math problem as her cinnamon toast, neglected on the plate beside her, grew cold. I told her to take a breath, take a bite, and enjoy a few minutes of calm before the bus came. Her eyes teared up while she sat, motionless, a baby possum in…