Saturday, October 8

Parent or grandparent, what makes you a good one?

Today as I set here thinking of the past and the world, I realized something very important.
In my day it was Dr Spock telling people how to raise their children, but I think that was a view of just one person there.  Raising your children is the hardest job and then the world tells you how you’re doing it wrong. All they need is Love and you to be there to provide a home, food and direction for them. In our daily lives we adults deal with life situations and sometimes we deal with them correct and sometimes we don’t.  Most of us do what we can and what our hearts tells us.  Falling in Love is easy and falling out of love should be hard.  We wonder through life and hope we are taking the right steps in life but only till we get to the other side of life do we know if we did it right.  Let your children be children because believe me being an adult is hard.  What you do effects your partner and if that partner is in it for the long haul, then you make it and if you’re not really committed you don’t.  We as a world have given adults permission to blame their short comings on their parents and the truth is we adults need to hold ourselves responsible for how we live our adult life.  There are no great parents or grandparents except the ones that our still there for you when you need them.
I’ve heard adults say “my parents” pulling from their childhood to correct their children and the truth is times have changed and what your parents did is not what you should do.  Grow with the times but don’t think because you take your child to everything in the world to give them great memories is the right thing.  Sometimes ask your child what they want to do on any given day and you just might find they want to just continue playing with the toy of the day.
Children need their parents present
Adults need to be Adults

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