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Harnessing Your Super Parent Powers
Little things you can do every day to be an awesome parent
Super parents are everyday parents. It’s not about the glamour of having a perfect life, a perfect house, and perfect kids. It’s about doing all the little things your kids need you to do every day, day in and day out. It is about loving them so much you don’t resent them for the time it takes for you to give them all they need to grow into the best version of themselves.
And these daily things our kids need are pretty ordinary and somewhat mundane. They are not exciting. The excitement of being a superpower parent is all in the slow and steady observation, much like planting a tree seed. It is not like a radish seed. It grows slowly and needs love, water, fertilizer, weeding and care for years before it is so large and strong it can take care of itself, pulling water out of the soil with its own deep roots.
While most parenting advice has nothing to do with science and a lot to do with the opinions of authors, I have tried to narrow down what science actually knows about our kids. What it takes to nourish kids, physically, mentally, and emotionally is not rocket science. I have no startling discoveries to share with you. Just common sense distilled into a sort of checklist.
