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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Real talk. We appreciate you helping watching and playing with our kids. It's enrichment for our kids and they are growing to enjoy the company. But this is NOT the purposeful and content part of parenting.

My son was being bullied at school and didn't know how to speak out for himself or even tell the teacher it was happening. My wife and I have been helping him vocalize and visualize how to express his discontent in a healthy way and also have the ability to report it to the teacher.

After months of this last week my son reported it to the teacher for the first time this year. I was so proud of him for speaking up to his bully and telling a teacher.

This is just a small thing that fills me with purpose and content. Everything we do together and watching him become a better person than me is what keeps me going.