Like most parents, I think I felt most confident in my parenting abilities before I became one. I would look at other people’s screaming toddlers in the grocery store and think that my children would never act in such a way. Elementary school bully... not my kid. Backtalking, eye-rolling teenagers? My children will never do such a thing. Then I became a parent. Faced with the reality of day to day parenting, my children’s inherent sin nature (and mine), and my need for sleep and alone time, parenting became daunting.