What your children are, is never only one thing and what they become is determined by so many different things. In our society today, we do not need more things to compare, and children should never be up for comparison. They just are.

When your (on paper) grown-up son who still lives at home sends a screen dump of a recipe of a dish he would us to have for dinner, with the comment “of course I will help”, then I’m thankful for the individual he has become and think to myself, we must have done something right.