The parent must always self-parent first

Ann Voskamp writes today about parenting.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child’s behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

I never expected that a mother’s labor and delivery never ends — and you never stop having to remember to breathe.

“The parent must always self-parent first, self-preaching always comes before child-teaching.” [One Thousand Gifts]