Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~Author Unknown
THE CHALLENGE THAT IS PARENTING
Whoever said parenting was easy must be daft or has not experienced
being a parent at all. Child rearing is a continuous process and does not stop
even after the child decides to move out of the house when he or she turns
eighteen. Even with years, centuries, and millennia worth of experience, nobody
can still determine what parenting methods work and what do not. Parenting is
unique to every setup and to every child and remains as unfathomable as ever.
With this nature, the best we can do is to prepare ourselves for a bumpy ride and
cross our fingers that we rear people who will be significant contributors to
society.
We don’t own our children. We’re merely here to teach them the ways of
life as we know it so that they succeed and survive gracefully in theirs. We can
choose to forego being parents and decide not to have children to escape this
difficult feat altogether, though it is highly doubtful that we would be able to
experience the level of happiness and fulfillment we would have if we chose to
become parents.
Being a mother or a father is one of the hardest jobs in the world. But it is
also the most rewarding of all.