The hardest lesson I ever tried to teach my girls was appreciation.
Honesty, respect, discipline. I could teach those.
Those have definitions. I can model those with ease.
Appreciation?
Adults still struggle with it.
Screaming “be grateful” at a kid doesn’t work.
It’s hard to miss what you’ve always had.
Appreciation lives in the gap.
The distance between having it and suddenly not.
That’s where it’s felt.
I just hope, over time, they felt it too.
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