Permission to Parent Part 3: The Prepared and Practical
The truth about my daughters going to the mall, as I describe in Part 1 of this series, was that I wasn’t ready. Not only was I not ready, I wasn’t consulted in advance or even at the time. I was just told. And worst for me, I was not prepared. If he had asked me, I would have been able to provide (hopefully) a measured response. I would have had time to process the pros and cons. Instead, when I was taken off guard and forced to react to the news an hour before they were leaving, it felt
