Parenting, eight years in

Previous posts in the series: On being a new parent, one year in, having a second kid, and five years in. It’s been nearly three years since my last parenting update, so I thought it was time for another one. Now that AI is better than me at everything I used to take pride in, my experience raising kids is maybe one of the only things I still bring to the table in life, so I may as well write about it, right? Kidding! I’m fine, really. Totally fine. 😅 Anyway… Here are some random thoughts about parenting my boys—who are now six and nearly-eight. Starting to grow up We like to assign clear labels to things. And, while it’s pretty clear that a five-year-old is a “child”, and a 30-year-old is an “adult”, it’s also clear that there is not a specific moment in time when a child suddenly transitions into an adult. We grow up over time. I think about this now, because the earliest seeds of adulthood are starting to form in my kids. Somewhere around this age you can start teaching kids how…