Several months ago, I found my son in my closet. When I asked him what he was doing, he looked at me and said, ”Mom it’s time to clean up in here. You have such nice things but it’s so messy that you can’t find anything.”
Recently my middle son, Ethan, was excluded from a “close” friends birthday party. Not a huge drama in the grand scheme of life, but enough to shake his self-esteem and confidence.