As soon as I'm done here, we can do that. She stood there for a moment and then came over to hug my leg and then kissed me. My heart could have exploded. Okay, so here's another one. Tonight was definitely about boundaries and my daughter had so many feelings. She was just looking to release. She was making kites at the table, which involved scissors and typically this is fine as she is almost five years old. I was just happily watching her create and she started cutting really close to her fingers so I reminded her to leave some room and not get too close. A few moments later she started cutting really fast and out of control and looked at me. I calmly took the scissors and said I was putting them away. She completely melted down, tried hitting me and screaming that I was mean. I got down on the floor with her and blocked her hands and just stayed as still and calm as possible. This continued for about 10 minutes of her crying and screaming at me and she then stormed off to her room. I tried to go in but she yelled for me to go away and said she needed space which lately I've been trying to give her when she requests since she's getting older. So I told her I would be right in my bedroom and still listening. About 15 seconds later she emerged and ran to me and crawled into my lap crying a few minutes more. Then she stopped and noticed something in my room at which point I knew the storm had passed. She turned around and said I love you mommy and wrapped her arms around my neck. Then she said can I help you make dinner now? And we held hands as we walked to the kitchen. I have tears in my eyes as I write this because I just didn't even know that this type of connection with anyone, let alone the most important person in my world, was even possible. It took me a lot of work to get here but your articles and podcasts made it possible and was like this light that I kept just working toward. Today I embodied that light and I can't express how grateful I am. Thank you so much to these parents for sharing with me. I've always felt this is one of the most helpful powerful tools, the stories that you all share. So please keep them coming and congratulate yourselves as this mother says. It took me a lot of work to get here. It takes a lot of work. These are generational cycles we're changing around our attitude towards feelings and the way they're expressed. There are probably a lot of people listening saying oh we should let children do these kinds of things. I get that. Yes this is an unusual path. It's probably still the one less traveled but it's definitely worth it for so many reasons that I think these stories have expressed better than I could. So thank you again. We can do this.