Getting Out of the Way
BevK December 12th, 2006
http://www.miami.com/mld/…es/16197814.htm
I was reading about Will Smith’s next movie which has his real life son playing the role of his character’s son. Smith and his wife Jada homeschool. In talking about Jaden and acting, Smith had this to say,
‘He just understands emotion. He just has a natural empathy. And we can’t even take credit for it. We can’t be like, `Oh, it’s because of the way we parent. We talk to our children a certain way, and we homeschool.’ Nah, he just came here like that. All we did was go to Mexico and get some tequila. Nine months later, he showed up. That’s the extent of our contribution.”
Yes, he came the way he is, but give yourself credit for doing two things. You nurtured him and you let him be himself. That’s a gift not all children receive. That’s one of the blessings of homeschooling. Parents can nurture a child into being who he was born to be rather molding him into the cookie cutter image of all children attending the first grade in Mrs. Peabody’s class. Growing up in a loving nurturing home doesn’t happen by accident thanks to a bottle of tequila.
