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Parenting Then and Now
They don’t tell you when you have children that you will have them for the duration, meaning until you, yourself, pass from the earth, or they do, heaven forbid, instead they, the powers that be, make you think that if you get your child to eighteen and accepted into a good college, you can declare victory and tell all your friends at cocktail parties about his major and how he’s ranked tenth in the state in tennis, but that’s leaving the book in the early chapters, in parenting, the chapters are endless, not all bad but interminable if I do say so myself, having had four children, and never knowing when I will need to tie the laces of my sensible shoes and show up once more to sing “You Are My Sunshine” to one or more of them which is alright, I’m not complaining, but it is different than what I expected when I started out.
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I’m gonna talk about children in my sermon on Sunday, based on 1 John 2 and 3. I’m gonna talk about how we’re all still children. And I’m gonna try to squeeze this in, giving you credit. Michael Martin should appreciate it. I hope others will too. Thanks!
There is SO much they don’t tell you. It’s like a conspiracy.
Secretly- I feel like I must have done some small thing correctly as none of them ran away screaming, vowing never to speak or see me again. I’m okay with being a forever parent. It gives me purpose.
absolutely. when they are young, the issues are much for frequent, but manageable and we have some level of control, or at least we think we do. when they are older, the issues are much less frequent, but they are adult life issues and much harder to navigate and we have to find the balance between letting them work it out and offering our help, sometimes just being there, a very delicate balance