Fall Seven Times...Stand Up Eight

"I don't like to fall Mommy! I want to never fall again!" Straight from the mouth of my babe.

As I go over to hug her and wipe her tears, and whisper "I know, I know; that hurts and it's frustrating..." I think to myself, "I want to never fall again too."

And before I knew it, I had actually said it out loud.

Panic...did I just say the wrong thing?

Then she looks at me, and she says, "Why do we fall down if no one wants to fall?"

"So we can learn to get up and go again," I say to her.

"But I know how to get up already!"

"I know you do; but we get better at getting up every time we fall."

...fall seven times, stand up eight...from a Japanese proverb.