"Well, I purposely left out the part where everything goes horribly wrong, people try to murder us, the inevitable betrayal of someone we trusted, the beatings, and then narrowly defeating out enemies. I didn't want you to hear all that and then get overly excited," I said, only half joking. Obviously I wouldn't bring Maggie into something that I thought was truly dangerous that she couldn't handle but she could handle a lot. And the sooner I acknowledged that then the closer I can come to helping her deal with everything else she had to handle.
Most parents face the challenge of "protecting your child from the world vs teaching them to survive in it" and it's difficult. I have the advantage of the fact that if I don't teacher Maggie how to handle herself (more than she's already learned) the world will spit her up and chew her out... possibly literally. That's the easy part, the choice is made. The hard part is all of the ugly things she'll have to learn to deal with.
"But if we do this we have to trust each other. I say jump, then you jump. You say jump, then I jump. Once we've jumped over whatever horrible thing tried to eat our feet, then we can ask the other person why we had to do that. Deal?"
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Date: 2018-01-16 05:09 am (UTC)Most parents face the challenge of "protecting your child from the world vs teaching them to survive in it" and it's difficult. I have the advantage of the fact that if I don't teacher Maggie how to handle herself (more than she's already learned) the world will spit her up and chew her out... possibly literally. That's the easy part, the choice is made. The hard part is all of the ugly things she'll have to learn to deal with.
"But if we do this we have to trust each other. I say jump, then you jump. You say jump, then I jump. Once we've jumped over whatever horrible thing tried to eat our feet, then we can ask the other person why we had to do that. Deal?"