The older we get the more we realize how much better life is if we are just willing to learn things the easy way \u2013 like by listening to those who have been there and done it and who have the experience to give us advice on avoiding pitfalls we will face.<\/p>\n
In the early years we tend to dig in our heels and demand to do it our way, refusing to listen to others with more experience because we are certain that they don\u2019t really know and they are just out of touch with \u201ctodays\u201d way of doing things. Then we do it our way only to make silly mistakes and find out that those with experience weren\u2019t so out of touch after all.<\/p>\n
As a parent it can be incredibly frustrating because as your kids reach college age and begin life as independent adults and when you try to advise them you get the \u201cI\u2019ve got this\u201d response, only then to get the phone call when things go wrong and they need you to step in and fix things for them because they\u00a0found they didn\u2019t have it after all\u2026.when all of it could have been easily avoided if they would only have trusted your experienced advise in the first place!<\/p>\n
But the irony of life is that as I express parental frustrations of my own, I am 100% certain my own parents are laughing because I did the same thing\u00a0 with\u00a0them back in my college years\u2026and I am certain that my parent\u2019s parents are up in heaven laughing at my parents because they did the same thing with them\u2026and on and on\u2026all the way to our Heavenly Father who knows how much frustration we could all avoid if we just followed his advice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It’s true that\u00a0we can learn through our life experiences, but we can also learn a\u00a0heck of a lot easier way if we\u00a0simply\u00a0listen and learn\u00a0from\u00a0the wisdom of those with experience that we can trust!\u00a0And guaranteed, our parents will absolutely\u00a0thank us for it someday!!!<\/p>\n
Have an amazing sunshine day!<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The older we get the more we realize how much better life is if we are just willing to learn things the easy way \u2013 like by listening to those who have been there and done it and who have the experience to give us advice on avoiding pitfalls we will face. In the early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3403,4503,387,626,46,890,10793,10786,10784,1376,240,1145,10794,224,163,10788,10790,10787,83,10785,171,218,5093,10795,1679,29,2971,1477,276,1810,2777,2475,10789,3584,181,233,111,10782,10783,535,728,2348,6742,10791,242,2559,9290,10792,238,260,84,1927,866,543],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adult","tag-adulthood","tag-advice","tag-advise","tag-attitude","tag-avoid","tag-avoided","tag-avoiding-pitfalls","tag-been-there-done-it","tag-certain","tag-children","tag-college","tag-college-years","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-do-it-our-way","tag-dont-listen","tag-early-years","tag-experience","tag-facing-pitfalls","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-fix","tag-follow-advice","tag-frustration","tag-god","tag-grandparents","tag-grow","tag-heavenly-father","tag-ignore","tag-independent","tag-irony","tag-ive-got-this","tag-kids","tag-laugh","tag-learn","tag-learning","tag-learning-the-easy-way","tag-learning-the-hard-way","tag-listen","tag-mistakes","tag-old","tag-old-school","tag-out-of-touch","tag-parenting","tag-parents","tag-pitfalls","tag-silly-mistakes","tag-thankful","tag-thanks","tag-trust","tag-trustworthy","tag-wisdom","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}