If you look at your own life's path, can you see how it has taught you things? A mother of four recently told me her doctor once told her, 'let your child get hurt a little and they will learn to avoid doing that again.' You can't catch every fall, nor are you supposed to.
As this caption implies, we cannot put kids in a protective bubble from all the hurts of the world. If you fight every battle for them, they'll never learn independence. What you can do is equip them for the battles.
How is that best done? A godly example and teaching biblical principles. Reading and explaining the Proverbs is a good source of wisdom. They say hindsight is 20/20 but how much clearer would decisions be made with foresighted wisdom.
There are things that will jump into our paths unexpectedly but when we recognize that we never walk our paths alone, we are comforted with that knowledge.
