One thing I am learning from spending time with my nieces and nephews is that I am able to parent without anger and in a more mindful and deliberate manner. For whatever reason, when I am having to discipline other people’s children I am able to bring a softness and equity that I find it hard to find with my own. I don’t have much time or space to consider the point further but it definitely seems to me that I need to give more weight to the practice of detachment with regard to my own child-hearing.
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Cattāri Brahmavihārā 
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