Emily

“But now, no matter how long my string is, every day just feels so sacred. And I don’t want to waste any time feeling sad or distracted. I just want to be grateful. To live as much life as possible.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“I am filled with hope for the generation to come that will once again be given permission to delight in a cloudless ski, a tender playmate, an afternoon of joy to swing upside down among the leaves. For a growing movement of children who will dance without TikTok. Who will live and love without commentary. Who will smile--widely and freely--without a filter. And I am filled with gratitude for the bold, brave, and unapologetic parents who will point their children to the heights of presence and admiration and innocence that Silicon Valley can never scale.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“What is anxiety if not fear that you cannot handle this world?" I tell him how much I want our kids to trust our very real and alive world, but mostly I want our kids to trust their very real and alive selves.”
― Erin Loechner, The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't