Dianette Wells raised three kids while becoming a sports competitor. Her children initially wanted a traditional stay-at-home mom, but watching her achieve made them proud and fearless. She's now an empty nester reflecting on how her example shaped them.
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Well, I'm an empty nester now. But you know, all of my sporting stuff happened when I had three kids. It was not easy for sure. My kids didn't understand it. They just wanted a normal mom who was home baking cookies. And it's like, I am so sorry you got stuck with me. But I saw that, you know, even though they would complain to my face, to their friends moms, they'd say oh, my mom's doing this or that. And so I knew on some level they were proud of me. And then I've seen them live their lives fearlessly. Like I look at my kids and I don't think they're afraid of anything. My girls have far courage than I ever had at their ages. And I don't know if it's their generation or just that they have never felt like they had limits. I was just a housewife. Not just, but stay at home housewife mom and I climbed a mountain and it's led to this crazy stuff. So I think they saw if she can do it, we can do anything.