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RE: What Can We Do Besides Discipline//Punish Our Children?
If every parent was so available, just imagine how much more stable, nurtured, secure, confident and capable children would be. Parenting is taken so lightly, when truly it is the most important "job" on the planet. What seems like child's play is actually the real work. I appreciate your comment @everittdmickey. It's refreshing to hear others place such great value on being a parent. Bless you!
You're welcome...I certainly did not expect THAT reaction.
It was a response!! I didn't really expect yours either!! Grateful to exchange with you @everittdmickey.
Well I'm closer to 70 than I am 60...I've seen quite a bit and talked to a LOT of folks from times gone by. If they were alive today they would be way past one hundred...in other words they were born in the eighteen hundreds..they were old when I talked to them half a century ago.
Observation, experience and conversation have provided me with some evidence from which I formed my own conclusions. The primary one is if you have kids then they are YOUR responsibility until you turn them loose on an unsuspecting society. No one elses..
So if you can't afford to raise em right..don't have any.
Sometimes hanging out with those who have been through many many decades or even a half of century or two have a greater perspective on what is important. What is important to a child and what holds true to be important in older age or at death are often very similar. Children will carry with them what we give them, so helping them build a strong foundation based on love is of great value. Invest in the children and it will pay off. It is up to us -- there is nothing more important to do!
A fool doesn't learn
A normal person learns from his experience.
A wise person learns from OTHERS experiences.
Bingo!!!!