To delight in your child is a step that happens in your own heart. Delight can be a challenge because there will undoubtedly be those days where the differences between you and your child will simply feel insurmountable, and you will wonder how you can find your way forward with them.

This kind of acceptance is a choice, and it is a habit we develop in ourselves as parents. It expresses truthfulness even if we don’t always feel the emotions of love and delight, but only if we practice an attitude of kindness and love in our hearts first. Only then can delight blossom and overflow into the lives of each of our children.

Read more about this in Uniquely You.