I Am a Parent
I am a mother to four children. Two boys and two girls.
I was blessed to have both.
I am a proud happy momma.
My children are not so little anymore. I have 2 adult boys and 2 teenage girls. They are now 23, 21, 19 and 14. Yet, I can still remember the day that each of them were born. I can remember it like it was yesterday, except the moments when they were still little seemed to have flown by. The years have gone by quickly.
Oh how I wish they were still babies...they grow up fast! Some days too fast.
I often find myself telling my youngest daughter to Stop growing up so fast! My baby is a teenager now and she just started her freshman year of high school. She is already counting down the days when she can drive!
I still remember the day when I took my oldest to get his permit when he was still in high school.
Now he is off into the world making a life of his own, in the United States Air Force.
As a parent we have to cherish the moments because they will not stay babies forever. They will however always be our children.
Once we become a mother or father, it is up to us to parent them the very best that we can. We will make mistakes and so will our children. None of us are perfect, yet we are still living in a world that is constantly evolving around us.
Times have changed from the time we grew up to the days of now where our children are. As the days were when our parents were growing up.
Some of us try not to make the same mistakes our parents did, and some of us try to teach our children everything that we have learned from the generations before us.
We often find ourselves questioning where we could have went wrong, if we could have done something differntly.
Yet often we forget what we did do right. We forget to acknowledge how well we did do. Did we do it right? Did we raise them correctly?
What is the correct way though? I don't think there is. Because correctness is over-rated, I think! There is a difference between what is correct and what is right.
There is no right way, is there or the correct way of doing things.
There is just a way.
How they learn is up to them. We can teach it or preach it but how they interpret it is up to them. What they get from it and how they learn from it is in the end result.
We can always be proud of our children, and there will be times where we are disappointed in them too, for their choices. And if your a parent that says you are never disappointed in your children then you have to look at why. Maybe it's not something they are doing wrong but what you are.
I don't mean to sound harsh about that but it's true. If you think you have a perfect child that never does wrong, then perhaps it's time to re-examine why!
I am not writing this to critize anyone's parenting skills, I am just writing it from my own perspective as a parent.
I am a middle child to two loving parents and I am the only one out of three children who has children.
My brother and sister dont have children so neither of them know first hand what it is like to be a parent.
Only my parents can relate to my life as a mom, because they are my parents. I have learned a lot from them and yes they made mistakes too, when I was growing up.
But, they are still my parents and I will always love them for being exactly that to me. My parents!
They are my mom and dad and I treasure them most in the world. I treasure my children as well. They are my blood, my family and I wouldn't change them in for anything else in this world.
I am blessed to have my family and everyone who is a part of my life.
I have learned a lot from my parents.
One of my greatest wishes is to be able to teach my children what I have learned from my own parents and let it be passed on down to them into the next generation.
-MamaButterfly
I was blessed to have both.
I am a proud happy momma.
My children are not so little anymore. I have 2 adult boys and 2 teenage girls. They are now 23, 21, 19 and 14. Yet, I can still remember the day that each of them were born. I can remember it like it was yesterday, except the moments when they were still little seemed to have flown by. The years have gone by quickly.
Oh how I wish they were still babies...they grow up fast! Some days too fast.
I often find myself telling my youngest daughter to Stop growing up so fast! My baby is a teenager now and she just started her freshman year of high school. She is already counting down the days when she can drive!
I still remember the day when I took my oldest to get his permit when he was still in high school.
Now he is off into the world making a life of his own, in the United States Air Force.
As a parent we have to cherish the moments because they will not stay babies forever. They will however always be our children.
Once we become a mother or father, it is up to us to parent them the very best that we can. We will make mistakes and so will our children. None of us are perfect, yet we are still living in a world that is constantly evolving around us.
Times have changed from the time we grew up to the days of now where our children are. As the days were when our parents were growing up.
Some of us try not to make the same mistakes our parents did, and some of us try to teach our children everything that we have learned from the generations before us.
We often find ourselves questioning where we could have went wrong, if we could have done something differntly.
Yet often we forget what we did do right. We forget to acknowledge how well we did do. Did we do it right? Did we raise them correctly?
What is the correct way though? I don't think there is. Because correctness is over-rated, I think! There is a difference between what is correct and what is right.
There is no right way, is there or the correct way of doing things.
There is just a way.
How they learn is up to them. We can teach it or preach it but how they interpret it is up to them. What they get from it and how they learn from it is in the end result.
We can always be proud of our children, and there will be times where we are disappointed in them too, for their choices. And if your a parent that says you are never disappointed in your children then you have to look at why. Maybe it's not something they are doing wrong but what you are.
I don't mean to sound harsh about that but it's true. If you think you have a perfect child that never does wrong, then perhaps it's time to re-examine why!
I am not writing this to critize anyone's parenting skills, I am just writing it from my own perspective as a parent.
I am a middle child to two loving parents and I am the only one out of three children who has children.
My brother and sister dont have children so neither of them know first hand what it is like to be a parent.
Only my parents can relate to my life as a mom, because they are my parents. I have learned a lot from them and yes they made mistakes too, when I was growing up.
But, they are still my parents and I will always love them for being exactly that to me. My parents!
They are my mom and dad and I treasure them most in the world. I treasure my children as well. They are my blood, my family and I wouldn't change them in for anything else in this world.
I am blessed to have my family and everyone who is a part of my life.
I have learned a lot from my parents.
One of my greatest wishes is to be able to teach my children what I have learned from my own parents and let it be passed on down to them into the next generation.
-MamaButterfly
