Life lessons
11 life lessons it turns out I’ve taught my kids.
By Leo Babauta
On my birthday recently, my (mostly adult) kids wrote out a list of lessons I’d taught each of them in their lives so far. Each wrote their own list, and my wife Eva sweetly put them together in a notebook.
As I read through them, I felt like crying. It’s so incredibly touching that they appreciate what I’ve been trying to pass on to them, things I’ve been learning and want them to understand.
As a father, there are few things more meaningful than to see how you’ve helped your kids through your example and talks over the years. We have a mixed family of six kids, all of them wonderful human beings.
It turns out, there were some lessons that all or most of the kids put on their list, which I’m going to share with you here.
These lessons they had in common made me wonder if these were the more powerful lessons — or if they were simply the ones I talked about the most!