Acceptance

Accepting things as they are is a difficult balance. Your mind, (ego) wants to change things; it thinks it knows what is best.  The dilemma is that every one's mind is unique, everyone has a different perspective and everyone thinks their way is the best!  You may win the battle but lose your mind. 

The overload of resistance in your mind to 'what is' creates stress. Where do you draw the line between action and inaction?  Choose your battles and learn to accept things as they are.  Logic and intuition are tools that you have to determine what to accept and what to do something about.  They are both valuable, but should be used one at a time.  Logic may take you down a path that determines that no matter what you do, nothing will change the situation.  The mind can then accept 'what is'.  At other times, your intuition may tell you that something needs to be done.  Your intuition pushes the action button.  Logic can then take over and determine if you should continue with the action or stop and accept 'what is'.

Acceptance is especially challenging as a parent.  When do we take action and when do we remain silent and allow them to make their own choices?  Logic and intuition are again the tools we use, however, I think we tend to error on the cautious side as their well-being becomes more important in our mind than our own.  Kids are stressful, that I am afraid is a fact that we just have to accept!