This will start serious and end funny, so follow to the end, it will be worth it. Many of us have learned that people are dangerous. As a result, we are busy trying to people please or avoid conflict, because we desperately just want to be safe and be ourselves. We are secretly on edge underneath our cloak of competence and no one would be the wiser, even our loved ones. We are just trying to be good enough, worthy enough, ….enough of whatever we learned we are supposed to be

What do you feed it? (Healthy stuff vs stuff you know is bad for them, like junk food?) What do you give it to drink? (Water? Milk? vs Alcohol, coffee, pop?) What do you do when it is tired? (Let it nap, or give it a double-double from Tim Hortons’ and keep it up until it is exhausted?) What do you do when it is sick? (Let it rest, bring it to the vet? vs force it to do what it always does and hope the illness doesn’t get worse) What do you do when they seem sad? (Be curious