“Your children don’t belong to you. You’re on borrowed time with them. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a better human being; not to build a mini version of you and all your deflated hopes and dreams. Help them become the best them, not the best you.”

~Source: unknown (although I’ve seen this quote also appear in TinyBuddha, Instagram, and a few other places)

Actually, this quote appears to be a shorter paraphrase of one of Khalil Djubran‘s poems, “On Children”. (Check it out.)

There’s a lot of truth in these words. 💖