Bringing a child into the world is one of the most beautiful and also most horrifying experiences — take it from me, I gave birth to two and helped raise two more. As Elizabeth Stone said, “Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Parenting is one of the scariest and most mind-bending things in the world because even if we can’t control it, I continue to believe that everything comes down to some decision that I made knowingly or unknowingly that changed the course of everything.
There’s no pain quite like watching one of your kids suffer. It can be agonizing. When they come home in tears because some little snot-nosed bully made fun of them, when they refuse to leave their bed because they’re go…