“Mom… I don’t want to bathe anymore.” My daughter started saying that every night after I remarried. At first, it seemed like a small thing. Ordinary. The kind of resistance that any parent hears a hundred times. But it wasn’t.

It was testimony.

And this is the truth I carry with me now, the one I wish all parents understood before it’s too late:

When a child’s fear doesn’t make sense,

Don’t be too quick to correct it.

Stay with him.

Listen longer than is comfortable for you.

Because sometimes, what seems like a small battle…

in reality he is a child trying to survive something that he still does not know how to say.

And the moment you finally hear it—you really hear it

You don’t just change their life.