Parents

You know, sometimes Parents can have such a hard job of knowing that they have got it just right in terms of doing the best for their children. We all know that we do not graduate into adulthood with a book with the blueprint for raising our children, do we? And yet, as parents, we are expected to know exactly what to do for the best with and for our children from the moment that they are born until they fly the nest.

Do you remember the first time when you were left alone at home with your first newly born baby? Can you remember feeling or thinking: what on earth do I do now? I certainly do! There you are with this new baby, a living thing, a human being and what do you do with him or her? It's not as if you can just pick up the baby and put him/her in your handbag and be on your way and you are sorted for the rest of the day or the rest of your life. No! You need to start to think differently, do things differently, take on a whole new responsibility that only really hits you once you've had time to get used to the fact that you now have a baby.

I think that is still how I have felt from time to time as my children reached different milestones in growing up. For instance, starting or leaving primary school, becoming a teenager, challenging behaviour that is totally unexpected, discipline in general etc.

Sometimes we may want to parent in a different way, however, somehow we may seem to be parenting in a way that we did not like, e.g. the way that our parents brought us up and or that is detrimental to our children, but somehow we do not seem to be able to change what we are doing. That's because we have developed certain patterns and behaviour over time that run our lives now and we need to learn how to change these patterns.

What are your thoughts?

Jennifer McLeod
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