The Legend of the Moccasins
Kira Roerig, a Family Therapist at Anasazi Foundation, shares the Native American legend of the moccasins and talks about the importance of parents allowing their children to have their own journey. Transcript of The Legend of the Moccasins: So, something that I often share with parents: there’s this old Native American story about a father and a son. And, in this story, the son is walking about the face of the earth. And he’s stepping on rocks and things that are pokey and prickly and thistles and thorns. And so, this loving father, out of love for his son, covers the earth with leather to help his son’s journey. And, as his son goes on, walking about the face of the earth, he continues to get poked and pricked by the thistles and thorns and so the father lays more leather over the earth. And then, eventually, the father realized…