Dearest Afrog,

Thank you so much for your insight. I’m sure you were an incredible parent and still are. Parenting comes with a unique phenomenon: second-guessing. You find yourself questioning every decision you make for your children, wondering if you’re being too tough on them or too lenient, debating when to put your foot down. And then, if (God forbid) something bad happens, you spend sleepless nights thinking about how you could have prevented it.

And then there are those moments when you miss the times they were little: when all you had to worry about was feeding them, cleaning them, and keeping them alive, as they kept trying finding new ways of getting killed ;) Life felt simpler then, even though it didn’t seem like it at the time...

But preparing them for the real world? That feels like such an enormous and daunting task. You’re not just teaching them to survive—you’re trying to help them thrive, to navigate a world that’s unpredictable and often unkind. It’s overwhelming, yet you keep going because that’s what parents do: You love, you worry, and you try your best, even when it feels like you’re carrying the weight of the world.

Sometimes I just can't help worrying too much...