As a parent, one of my goals is to help raise kids who can do things on their own.
We recently bought a nightstand for Paco and the NFO asked me to put it together. Now, in fairness, she did ask me to put it together, but what I chose to hear was "make sure it gets put together." But that is a topic for a different day.
You know what I really heard? Learning opportunity!
So, I tasked Tikkanen and Jokinen with getting the job done, figuring they were at the stage where they could do it.
And they did (I only got involved at 2 small points for some final Quality Assurance work).
It was a great feeling to see them do it and I felt very grateful to the NFO (aka my wife) and my kids for the fact that we had all reached this milestone.
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