There are many parts of parenting that are hard. I don’t need to tell you that. The whole world is more than happy to trumpet the difficulties inherent in raising children. We all know about the sacrifices of time and money and personal space, the push and pull of wanting to be both here and there, the physical pain of getting them here in the first place (by birth or adoption, I’m here to tell you). We walk in knowing it won’t be a cakewalk.
And then, one of our kids faces a giant we can’t fight and suddenly, we learn it all over again: parenting is hard.