| The reality of life is you always have to let go and let | | | | with friends, as long as you set his limitations, nothing |
| grow. You can never be good at it because it is painful | | | | could go wrong - just believe. He might want to try |
| to let go of something that you thought was yours. | | | | paintballing with his friends. |
| Letting go is the last thing you would consider. But it is | | | | Don't worry too much it might kill you. All you have to |
| the only way to prepare yourself - you don't own | | | | do is keep on letting go, paintball is not something to |
| anything or anyone, you always have to let go. It is a | | | | fear about. Think about the paintball field, it is one |
| process that you undertake everyday, and that you | | | | enclosed area built to safely contain the game inside. |
| learn slowly. Loving is not protecting him from all harm, | | | | What is there to worry about, when there is a bigger |
| it is teaching him to protect himself and preparing for | | | | world outside that paintball field that soon he will |
| that time when you can no longer be around for him. | | | | conquer on his own. Those paintball gadgets and |
| What is one small wound when it can make him a | | | | gears will protect him but not as much as you want to |
| better person in the process? | | | | cuddle him and win the battle for him. Life doesn't work |
| I would take as an example of letting your child go and | | | | that way. You never have to win his battles for him |
| leave him in school. He might throw tantrums and cry | | | | because reality tells us that life is a series of letting |
| out loud because he became too dependent on you. | | | | go's. |
| Allow him to experience a life of his own, as young as | | | | You know for a fact that as you grow, life becomes |
| when he takes his first step. Let him play his own | | | | complicated. You have to teach him that. With proper |
| game. Let him do his own thing, as a child he just | | | | love and care done at the proper time and place, it will |
| needs guidance and assistance but never someone to | | | | all be perfect. Don't be overly protective of him, for |
| drive his life. Let him do his thing. Wait patiently when | | | | you might just suffocate him with your kind of love. |
| he plays at the playground or on that bouncy thing with | | | | Don't make him walk away from you. Let him go and |
| nets, allow him to jump as high as he could. Make him | | | | let him experience to grow on his own and he will |
| experience life, for as long as you guide him and make | | | | always be there for you. Letting go is hard, it is painful |
| him feel loved, nothing will go wrong. Let him go when | | | | but it is the only way to show that you believe. |
| he wants to join football and when he wants to go out | | | | |