Whenever I’m faced with people who seem to have given up on themselves, I remind them that fear is paralyzing, and that the only way to get past it is to move beyond it. In spite of it.
Being able to confront their weaknesses and turn them into strengths is something they will be able to use all their lives. You’re doing a great job with your kids!
Thanks! Now that Anoreth is enrolled in college, I’m feeling pretty positively, after all the grousing from certain Mothers we could mention for the last 13 years. What’s a little remedial algebra? She’s only 17, anyway.