So your mom let you fail...
Okay, so Mom’s always been there for you. Remember that time in the fourth grade when you forgot your lunch? Your mom strolled right into the school’s front off, Lizzy McGuire lunch box in hand. In the 8th grade, when you waited until the last minute to do your “Miss America’s Historical Impact on the World” project, she ran out at 8 p.m. to buy a poster board, then helped you find photos of big-haired girls on the internet. Yep, she’s always been there. Until now. You really needed her to bail you out this time, and she didn’t.
So she hates you now, right? Wrong. Truth is, your mom just gave you a huge compliment. Let me explain: Last year, there was a made-for-TV movie called Moonshoot about Apollo 11’s journey to the moon. Yes, the same journey with the whole “One small step for man, one giant leap for Tang” moment. Well, there’s a really cool scene with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin that went something like this:
Armstrong and Aldrin are in the simulator, practicing for the real moon landing. Armstrong’s at the helm, ‘landing’ the craft. Mission Control keeps warning, “do this and you’ll crash,” and “do that or you’ll crash.” Well, dag nabbit, as Aldrin looks on Armstrong ‘crashes’ the spacecraft. A furious Buzz looks to Neil and hisses, “If that had been real, we’d be dead.” Neil looks over at him calmly and says, “I did it on purpose. I needed to know that if something’s wrong, Mission Control won’t fix it. I needed to know that, in the end, it’s totally up to us.”
Whoa.
Well, your mom (a.k.a. ‘Mission Control’) just gave you control of your ship. Full control? Of course not, this is Mom, after all. But she’s decided you’re ready to deal with the consequences of your mistakes. She thinks you’re ready to take responsibility for your actions. She's treating you like a grown up.
Now if something serious had happened, you know she would have been there…probably. But from now on, think twice about what you do before you do it. One day she just won’t be able to help you. And better you learn it now instead of learn it later when the stakes are much higher.
So congratulations. You’ve just taken a big step – strike that – a giant leap on your path to adulthood. And believe it or not, your mom is (secretly) cheering you on the whole way.
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Okay, so Mom’s always been there for you. Remember that time in the fourth grade when you forgot your lunch? Your mom strolled right into the school’s front off, Lizzy McGuire lunch box in hand. In the 8th grade, when you waited until the last minute to do your “Miss America’s Historical Impact on the World” project, she ran out at 8 p.m. to buy a poster board, then helped you find photos of big-haired girls on the internet. Yep, she’s always been there. Until now. You really needed her to bail you out this time, and she didn’t.
So she hates you now, right? Wrong. Truth is, your mom just gave you a huge compliment. Let me explain: Last year, there was a made-for-TV movie called Moonshoot about Apollo 11’s journey to the moon. Yes, the same journey with the whole “One small step for man, one giant leap for Tang” moment. Well, there’s a really cool scene with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin that went something like this:
Armstrong and Aldrin are in the simulator, practicing for the real moon landing. Armstrong’s at the helm, ‘landing’ the craft. Mission Control keeps warning, “do this and you’ll crash,” and “do that or you’ll crash.” Well, dag nabbit, as Aldrin looks on Armstrong ‘crashes’ the spacecraft. A furious Buzz looks to Neil and hisses, “If that had been real, we’d be dead.” Neil looks over at him calmly and says, “I did it on purpose. I needed to know that if something’s wrong, Mission Control won’t fix it. I needed to know that, in the end, it’s totally up to us.”
Whoa.
Well, your mom (a.k.a. ‘Mission Control’) just gave you control of your ship. Full control? Of course not, this is Mom, after all. But she’s decided you’re ready to deal with the consequences of your mistakes. She thinks you’re ready to take responsibility for your actions. She's treating you like a grown up.
Now if something serious had happened, you know she would have been there…probably. But from now on, think twice about what you do before you do it. One day she just won’t be able to help you. And better you learn it now instead of learn it later when the stakes are much higher.
So congratulations. You’ve just taken a big step – strike that – a giant leap on your path to adulthood. And believe it or not, your mom is (secretly) cheering you on the whole way.
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