Life is not always an easy thing. You will have good times and bad times, up and downs. The one thing to remember is you will get through it.
Life can teach you a lot if you are willing to learn from the experiences. As a parent, it is hard knowing you have to let your child experience life. They need to find their way and discover who they are by going through everyday life situations.
Right now, I am dealing with a situation with Caleb and his preschool. Part of me, I want to pull him right out of their and protect him. I wish I could put him in an invisible bubble and keep him from all sickness and harm. The thing is I can't. (Really, an invisible doesn't exist anyway.) I can't protect him from everything. He will get hurt. He will get sick.
First let me define hurt. I don't want people thinking "Oh my, you will let your child do anything even if it means it can kill him." No, that is not what I am saying. What I am defining as hurt is the time your child might fall off a jungle gym and breaks an arm or leg. Or a time, when playing with another child, he gets hit in a eye with a toy. Those kind of scenarios.
You can't keep your child from playing with other children. Now, unless it is a repetitive harmful thing, darn right my child will not play with that other child any more. But Caleb needs to grow and learn. He needs to be around other people so he can develop skills that will help him be a better person.
Overall, my point to all this rambling, invisible bubbles don't exist. Your child will get hurt emotionally and physically in life. Your child will get sick. So just suck it up and realize that doctor's appointments and emergency runs to the ER or Urgent Care are all part of life. That is why they exist in the first place.
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