on what my daughter taught me

about pace and confidence

Many say that it’s the role of a parent to be model a mentor and a partner in helping their children discover who they are and show them the way.

These people are idiots.

You see, before children are born, their spirits are waiting outside of us saying shit like:

Check out that fool. I can really fuck with them for a while. Maybe they’ll learn something from me.

That is to say that we choose our parents from beyond the beyond. We’re put here on this earth to teach them something.

Something important about themselves and something important about being human. Something that without the stakes of loving and caring for someone soooo deeply that it forces us to examine every aspect of our being.

Right?

Dr Spook and all the rest of the child psychopatholigists have it all arse backwards.

Luckily, I’m an idiot and I’ve been on the lookout for this for years.

Most of the time?

I don’t get it.

As such, my children have at times grown tired, frustrated and fundamentally enraged with me. This is ok. I’ve…