So Alyse has been watching her daughter navigate all the big changes lately - the teenage stuff, the emotions, the whole thing.

And she said she used to jump in every time her daughter got upset.

You know how we do that? See our kids struggling and immediately want to make it better?

But recently she tried something different. She just sat with her. Didn't try to solve anything. Just... stayed.

And as her daughter felt safe to have her big feelings, Alyse realised she was learning how to have her own feelings too.

Like, really feel them instead of pushing them away like she always had.

She laughed when she told me this, but I could hear something deeper there.

"I thought I was the one doing the teaching," she said, "but honestly? She's been teaching me how to be human this whole time."

It made me think about how our homes are these little laboratories where everyone's growing up together.

Parents and kids.

How maybe the healing isn't just happening to our children - maybe it's happening to all of us, through each other.

It just felt important to share because sometimes we forget that we're all figuring this out as we go. And that's actually beautiful.

What do you think?

Does this ring true for you in your own home?