Stop Striving and Start Thriving (with feeding resources for families and SLPs)
It’s easy to believe that if you provide the perfect care for your family, you can raise kids who never get sick, have genius IQs, perfect skin,
perfect behavior, and amazing athletic abilities. But is all of this optimization actually best
for the children in our care? I have
seen too many parents in tears because they feel they are somehow failing to
provide their children the “optimal” experience. But what if what’s praised as “best” by
society isn’t actually the best option for everyone? What if by working so hard to meet a
perceived societal standard, we are actually distracting ourselves from the
ways we can thrive in our own unique situations? And what if to thrive, we have to let go of
control and allow ourselves to rely on tools, resources, and others’ helping
hands?
If you feel insufficient, it’s because we are all insufficient. God
doesn’t expect us to do everything on our own, or even to do everything an
exact specific predetermined way. He
asks us to rely on His help, often offered through others, and sometimes using
surprising resources. And there are some
decisions with neither a right nor a wrong answer. What matters
isn’t that your life looks optimal or perfect. What matters is that you can find ways to
thrive in whatever situation you are in.
To consider the many kinds of resources and choices God provides for
us, let’s take a closer look at feeding kids.
