Kindness and Reframing

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

I am blessed with the friendship of several older women, who frequently share wonderful pearls of wisdom with me.  On a recent Sunday morning, I shared with them that I was trying to keep my children on task – getting to church – while they were asking about a number of different things that needed to happen this week.  One of my wise friends said, “What I hear is children being responsible.”  And in an instant, I realized that yes, it is important to keep my children on task, but it is also important to acknowledge when they are trying to be responsible.