Cat Nap

"The appetite grows by eating"

-Rabelais

I like this quote. I like it in context for what you said in your letter about loving children by letting them be themselves. I know they might not seem related, but I feel like in order to give your children a hungry appetite for life, love, goodness, joy, and confidence, you have to let them eat. You see parents that are so concerned with keeping their children safe and sheltered that there is no room for the appetite to grow. And then I really don't think you can figure out who you are. You have to try it, to eat, and then you know. But if we are never giving this ability to try, then we have to fall back on the only example we have, our parents. And then, by default, end up just like them. But if we taste who we are, we can grow in it.

I don't know how to let your kids do this, but I am guessing it all starts with being secure in who you are, then you can give this gift to them.