Fresh today · Sunday, 12 July

New Wishes

A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.

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I hope I become a person who lets you be more yourself than I ever quite was.

I hope I become the kind of parent you will want to call without hesitation.

I hope I become someone you can disagree with and still trust.

I hope I become the home you can always come back to, even when you don't need it.

I hope I become unafraid to say I don't know and to learn alongside you.

I hope I become a parent whose love is loud in the quiet ways.

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I hope I become the kind of person you can borrow strength from when yours runs low.

I hope I become a softer version of myself for you.

I hope I become a parent who knows that loving you is the favorite thing I'll ever do.

I hope I become the kind of person who shows you what kindness looks like in action.

I hope I become brave enough to let you fail and wise enough to be there when you do.

I hope I become a parent who trusts you to make your own mistakes and your own meanings.

I hope I become someone whose home is a place you can be tired in.

I hope I become a parent you can tell anything to, including the things I don't want to hear.

I hope I become the kind of person whose love makes you braver, not smaller.

I hope I become a parent who keeps growing alongside you.

I hope I become someone whose presence is its own kind of yes.

I hope I become the kind of mother (or father) who knows when to stop talking and just listen.

I hope I become a parent who is hard to disappoint and easy to forgive.

I hope I become the person who never makes you choose between honesty and love.

I hope I become someone you would still want to know if I weren't your parent.

I hope I become the kind of person who is proud of you out loud, and often.

I hope I become a parent whose home you bring your own children back to one day.

I hope I become the favorite voice in your head on the hardest days.

I hope you learn to apologize first and well.