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The 9 Worst Lessons I Had to Learn
I’ve learned some tough lessons throughout my life, but these were the hardest by far
Pre-algebra was hard for me. So hard, in fact, that I had to take it twice. But it was still pretty easy compared to some of the lessons I’ve had to learn in life.
When I was taking pre-algebra for the second time, I thought that was the hardest life would get. These days, I wish I was that incredibly innocent high school girl again. Because, trust me, that class that kicked my ass so hard back then is nothing compared to what life had in store.
I don’t know what your hardest lessons have been, but here are mine.
My kids will grow up whether I want them to or not
I’m now mother to a 19-year-old about to turn 20 and a just-turned-17-year-old. Over the course of nearly two decades of parenting, there have been so many times that my kids have been ready to take a leap forward before I was. And at those times, it was so tempting to want to hold them back simply because I wasn’t ready.
And that might have been the easy thing to do. In fact, I know it was the easy thing to do because I had to do the hard thing: I had to set aside my own lack of readiness to keep from stunting my kids’…
