Raising An Inconvenience
“Mature love and parenting involves you putting your child’s welfare ahead of your own. I have said it before, and I will say it again: children are messy, noisy, learning, immature. They don’t sleep like an adult, they don’t reason like an adult, they take a long time to mature and develop (and 7, 8, 9, 10 year-olds are still little! So I am talking 21 years of growth and development!). They get sick, they laugh and cry at the wrong times, they fall down, they fight with each other and with you.
They are also wonderful. They will show you a spiritual world that you may have forgotten existed. They will say the funniest things. No one will love you like a sweet child.
Adjusting to having an infant can be challenging; it can be difficult. I am very sympathetic to mothers needing support and help. The choices we make in these early years set the foundation for discipline, for the school years, and later for the teenaged years. It should make one stop and at least consider different choices rather than just decide on something because it is easiest. You cannot take your “before children life” and just add children and stir. Having children should change your life, don’t you think?
As mothers and fathers, it is our privilege and our responsibility to provide our children with a childhood they hopefully won’t have to recover from. No matter what we do, our children will go their own way as they mature and grow in early adulthood. But, it is our job to give them the footing to start. It is our job to guide. And I don’t know about you, but the development of my children’s physical, emotional, academic and character is worth me being inconvenienced any day or night of the week!”
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