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Elizabeth Stone - Making the decision to have a child – it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, a
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew Mcgibbon for August 11th.
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  Today is National Son and Daughter Day and if you're a
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  parent, you know that every day is kind of your kids day anyway.
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  But today makes it official. This heartwarming holiday
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  encourages parents to take extra time to appreciate the
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  incredible gift of being someone's mom or dad.
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  National Son and Daughter Day celebrates that unique,
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  irreplaceable bond between parents and children.
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  Whether your kids are toddlers who think they're a superhero,
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  teenagers who think you know absolutely nothing, or adults
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  who've come full circle and realize that maybe you do know a
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  thing or two. It's a day to set aside the
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  daily routines, the nagging about homework and chores, the
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  rushing from one activity to another, and just focus on the
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  pure joy of watching these amazing humans that you helped
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  bring into the world grow and become themselves.
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  The beauty about this day is it reminds us that being a parent
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  isn't just about providing, protecting, and problem solving.
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  It's also about celebrating who your children are right now, in
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  this moment, exactly as they are.
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  Which brings us to today's quote from the writer Elizabeth Stone,
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  who perfectly captured the essence of parenthood when she
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  said making the decision to have a child, it is to decide forever
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  to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
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  Stone captured something that's impossible to explain to people
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  who don't have children. That profound shift that happens
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  the moment you become responsible for another human
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  being's well-being and happiness.
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  When they're little, it's obvious.
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  You feel their scraped knees like they're your own.
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  You beam with pride at their first steps, their first words.
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  But it doesn't stop there. When they're grown, you still
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  worry. When they're late getting home,
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  you still appreciate their victories like they're your own.
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  You still want to fix their problems, even when you know
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  they need to fix them themselves.
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  That's the beautiful vulnerability of parenthood.
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  Loving someone so much that their well-being becomes more
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  important than your own comfort, your own safety, sometimes even
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  your own happiness. So today, whether your sons and
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  daughters are 5 or 50, take a moment to tell them how proud
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  you are of who they are. Not just what they've
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  accomplished, but who they are as human beings.
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  Share memory, listen to their dreams, or just spend some
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  unstructured time together. Because Elizabeth Stone was
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  right. They are your heart walking
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  around outside your body. And that's not a burden.
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  That's one of life's great privileges.
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  I'm on my own for a few weeks as the kids are on vacation
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  visiting family in Europe. I'll be seeing them on a video
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  call today, but it isn't the same thing as getting a hug in
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  person, and I can tell that our dog misses them, too.
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  The house is oddly quiet without them yelling, fighting and
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  laughing. And suddenly the cats really
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  like me, which is weird. That's going to do it for today.
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  May your heart be full of gratitude for the amazing humans
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  you get to call your children. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.