Today I met a new friend whose name will go unmentioned for obvious reasons. She has a child who was diagnosed with a specific type of cancer about five years ago. The child is eight now and is doing wonderfully. What impressed me the most about this mom was her ability to see reality and to parent appropriately even though her child has suffered an awful adversity.
She didn’t focus or care that her child’s so called healthy friends had cell phones at the tender age of nine. How impressive and inspiring it is to connect with a parent who has the confidence and intelligence to discern what is really important in a child’s life. I was even more moved by the fact that she obviously doesn’t coddle her daughter because she has or thankfully had cancer.
Instead, this mom navigates above the waves of keeping up with the proverbial Jones. Her child will thrive in my opinion, much more than the children who are offered things instead of rules, attention, strength and example.
