Parenting is hard. It may be the most ambiguous job you���ll ever have. Not only do you have to wait literally years to see what the ���finished product��� truly is ��� you have to get through adolescence and social media influence and screen time and drug use and hurt from relationships and broken bones and just basic screw-ups on your part ��� but there���s no guaranteed rule book.

Parenting has stages.. .

Today���s episode is on the stage of parenting, where you leave the ���teaching��� stage of parenting to the ���consulting��� stage. You move from having a very central, controlling role with your kids to a less primary, but still very important role. You don���t tell them what to do necessarily ��� but you offer guidance. And if they fall, you help them get up. You show your belief in them ��� you don���t try (as hovering helicopter or even worse lawn-mower parents do) to make sure they���re not facing any obstacles. You may think you see the obstacle before they do ��� but they���re grown. And they���ve got to live out their choices ��� just as you did. Or hopefully you did.

We���ll be using three different listener comments or questions ��� and as always, thank you for writing in!

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