In our last several +1s, we’ve been mining parenting 💩 for antifragile ⛽️.

Let’s continue.

So…

After cleaning up my sub-optimal parenting performance, Emerson and I were in our separate queen-size beds chatting before falling asleep.

Note: This is THE VERY FIRST time we’ve *ever* slept in separate beds when it’s just the two of us.

He’s getting HUGE and tends to steal the sheets in the middle of the night (lol) so we thought we’d try this, but we’ll be going back to sleeping in the same bed again until we simply can’t. I’m not ready for the last time we share a bed yet. 🤓

Fun fact: Abraham Lincoln used to share a bed with his lawyer friends when he was out on the road, so maybe we’ll keep it going for a while longer. 🤓

Now…

As we were getting ready to fall asleep, I said: “You want to know all the things I admire about you?”

(I got tears in my eyes typing that and I got tears in my eyes when I said it.)

He said: “Yah!!”

I said: “Well, there’s a lot. Of course, I admire how coachable you are and how committed you are to being your best.

But the thing I MOST admire about you is that you’re just such a GOOD (misty), WONDERFUL (misty) person.

You have an energy about you that’s palpable. It inspires me so much.”

I could feel him soaking it in.

Then I continued: “Remember the chess dad whose young son admires you?”

He said: “Yah.”

I said: “He told me that he appreciates how kind you are to his son and he also told me that you have an aura about you. He said that he could FEEL your confidence and power and goodness and that he KNEW you were going to be very successful in life.”

Yes, I got tears in my eyes typing that.

And…

Yes, I’m sharing that so you can think of what YOU can celebrate in YOUR kids.

That’s Today’s +1.

What do you most admire in your loved ones?

Go tell them.

TODAY.

What Do You Admire #2026

In YOUR Loved Ones?

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