We had to disappoint our oldest daughter recently.
Taylor Swift was coming to our city.
The ticket prices were still outrageously high.
We weren’t going to pay $3,500 to send her to watch from a nosebleed seat behind the stage.
But we were willing to pay a much lower price to let her see her favorite singer in concert.
We told her this.
She got really excited.
We kept watching the ticket prices every day and night she was performing in our city.
They went down.
But not by enough.
By Sunday night, it was an hour before showtime.
It was Taylor’s last night playing in our city.
We were hoping for a drastic drop in ticket prices for any decent seat for the concert.
It never happened.
She was disappointed, understandably.
But we had been openly talking to her all weekend about how expensive tickets were.
The only reason we were considering trying to get cheaper tickets for her to watch Taylor Swift live is because she never asked to go to the concert.
She was raking and bagging leaves with us all weekend.
She wasn’t making friendship bracelets, putting on something fancy and getting ready to go to a concert that many of her classmates would be at and talking about on Monday.
That weighed on us as parents.
We want to give our kids the world.
But we have to teach them to be responsible, especially with money.
We have to teach them how to handle disappointment.
It’s hard to not give our children everything they want.
But if we give them everything they want all of the time, we risk raising children who grow up to be irresponsible adults.
It’s a really hard balance.
We think we did the right thing, even though it hurt to disappoint her.
If you’re disappointing someone you love, please know you’re not alone.
You’re still a good person.
You may even be doing them a favor by not giving them everything they want.
Here’s to turning our disappointments into our biggest blessings,
Lauren
Start your day inspired with your morning mantra.
Good morning, sweet soul
Your morning mantra for today is:
My disappointments can become my biggest blessings.
I am giving myself grace to feel disappointed.
I can feel frustrated and also feel hopeful for the future.
I am open to the lessons I can learn from this.
This setback can become my biggest comeback.
Breath prayer
Inhale:
God, please help me feel at peace with my disappointment
Exhale:
While I trust Your plan for me
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As always, thank you so much for being here with me.
Thanks for sharing my mission to start our days feeling happier and more inspired.
All my best,
Lauren