What I want for my children is to help them choose the right. I want them to work hard, to be obedient, to make good choices. Sometimes I want to help to the point of force.
What I want for my children is sometimes not what they need.
It's like teaching them to ride a bike. What I want is for them to learn without falling. What they need is for me to take off the training wheels and let them fall in order for them to learn.
This is the hardest thing we have to do as parents, and may be one of the hardest things Heavenly Father has to do--to let us come to Earth by removing our training wheels and allow us the opportunity to fall and get up again. And again.
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