Today I learned that kids are sort of like planes. When we were talking about letting our kids do their own thing, my friend gave me an interesting metaphor: not worrying about his daughters dating was like taking his first flight in a plane he had rebuilt. At some point with the plane, he had to trust that he’d done all he could, and the plane would either fly or not based on the work he’d done previously. Same, he said, with “letting go” of the need to micromanage his kids.
The creative lesson I took from this Noticing is that in creative pursuits, as in parenting, there comes a point when you must have faith in the foundations you've laid and release your work into the world without trying to control every outcome.
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127 - That Kids Are Like Planes