Facts.

It's amazing!

Okay but like you could 100% do this...

I've said it before and I'll say it until the end of time.

I really am the luckiest mom in the whole wide world because I get to be his.

Tonight he got started on his own. He listed the 4 I always do for him and then launched into his own.

"I am enough."

I've never suggested that one.

I gasped and teared up and said, "Yes, you are enough. Just the way you are."

He nodded and hugged me.

"We both are, Mom."

"SOMETIMES I am impulsive. But I am LEARNING."

I think giving him a framework to process true messy things helped more than blowing them off.

He fights it sometimes but he gets there. On the nights he doesn't believe it, I tell him it's okay. I'll believe it for the both of us until he can.

For a little more than a month, I've been doing affirmations with him when I him into bed. I get him started with, "I am Clever Pineapple. I am a good kid. I am smart. I am brave. I am kind."

And he takes over from there.

He fought it HARD at first.

We included some things with qualifiers.