“That was hard,” he admitted.

“To let someone else help?”

He nodded.

“For years I thought I always had to be the one who went first.”

“Sometimes your job is to let another person take care of their own child.”

He watched the boy return to playing.

Then Sadie called us over to admire how high she could swing.

Callum clapped from the bench, and his applause was loud enough to make her grin across the playground.