Renee's dad refused to let her go to the new park alone. He insisted that it was unsafe. She could not understand why. "But Papa," she said,
it's only four blocks away!"
On their next trip, her father looked around. "It's a great park," he
agreed. "But I still don't like the idea of you crossing so many streets by
yourself to get here."
Eventually, Renee and her father made a deal that they would walk to
the park together every day for two weeks. If she could make good
decisions and cross the streets safely, she would be allowed to go by
herself after that. Two weeks later, Renee made her first solo trip to the
park an returned, brimming with pride, to tell her father all about it.
Which s atement best expresses a theme of this story?