There comes a time in life when you look at your children and you know you have to take a step back. Letting them learn through their own experiences and/or mistakes. Knowledge of life you may impart, but no matter how much it hurts you not to sweep them up and wrap them in a warm blanket, you are just left to guide them forward.

When they're babies, you cradle, saving from harm A bruised knee is soon forgotten with a tender kiss from mum or dad but then again, physical knocks are an easy heal.

There are some things in life you cannot teach your children. Emotional intelligence is one of them. Personally, I find this to be the hardest to deal with of all. The time when you know you cannot make things better with just a hug or a hot chocolate is that time when you step back and reevaluate, making mental note to stop talking and start listening.

That little baby you held and nurtured in your arms isn't a baby anymore and although you've done your very best to ensure his or her well being, emotionally, you have no say in the matter.

Emotional intelligence is an area, which I believe, is a life tool but feel can only come from experience. You cannot teach your children how to deal with emotional outbursts or silence from another, just the tools on how they react to them.

In my life experience, I've found that overthinking troubles usually causes more uneccesary worry, as the weight of the world begins to feel heavy on your shoulders. My philosophy is, 'Can I do something about this'?  If the answer is 'no', then I will strive to let it go. I have found that as time passes, life has levelled out and balance has been restored. What about the children? Well, they will have to live through these trying times of theirs too, in order to secure cognition.

Life is joyous, a gift. You cannot teach someone to be happy, it has to come from inside the heart. Knowing that 'tomorrow' is life's reset button helps to move us all forward with a positive gait...and may we all get there, one baby step at a time.

I never thought the nature/nurture debate would surface again in my lifetime...what do I know?