I’ve never really butted heads with my nephew. Not seriously, not like the other week. He’s always been the one who runs to me—when something’s wrong, when he needs to vent, heck, even when he wants to moon over his…
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Boundaries & Backup
You’re not the parent. You’re the backup — the one who has to know the rules, respect them, and still be fully yourself within them. This is where we talk about that line: finding it, holding it, occasionally tripping over it.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that these wonderful kids are NOT our own. That they have parents whose rules we have to follow. (Of course, when the kids start being difficult, it’s never difficult to remember that we can return…