A few years back my Daughter started riding horses. In looking back at old video's, she was, well, not exactly stable on the back of the big animal. Not to mention the few times she actually fell off the horse.

Fast forward a year or so and she won first place in the local rodeo for pole bending. The brand new saddle and numerous belt buckles were nice, but she and I knew the real prize, she had a passion, followed that passion with huge desire, through good an bad, and won.
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Actually thats the problem, she didn't say anything. I'm not saying she was a bad mom, far from it.

But she never told me I could do anything I put my mind to. She did not tell me, that what I true believe I can achieve.

Course, if she had told me all that "stuff", would I have believed her? Do any of us listen to our parents when we ere younger? Seems it takes many years, struggling out on our own to finally admit or come to the conclusion that, gee, some or...