"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone"
When my son was younger, there was very little that couldn't be healed with a kiss, a hug or a self affirming chat with me assuring him he was the most wonderful thing since wonderful things became wonderful...
Now that he is older, there are complications from life that are beyond my powers as a loving mother to fix, and I hate it...
We want our children to learn problem solving skills, but it's painfully difficult to stand back and watch this process.
We want them to succeed, but we dont want to push too hard.
We strive to teach them to think for themselves, yet we dont want to see them ostracized by their peers for being different.
This fine line we walk as parents in this world is precarious at best.
And when as a single parent, the burden falls on your shoulders to be that everything to your child, it is nearly impossible not to make mistakes...not to falter..and not to feel like shit when you do.
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Hey Penny :)
Although I don't have any children,yet, You struck a nerve. I have to say that I used to pretty much "hate" my parents for things they did or didn't do. Looking back on things I resented some of the choices they made for me. Now that I am older I realize that they truely did do the best they could and I have let them know that the decisions they made for me then were ok, but now I can decide for myself and I will. I don't resent them anymore. After all if it weren't for them I'd still be in the "land of the blue children" (as my great grandmother call it) You're the parent, you made your child( with a little help), you're responsible for them and you're not perfect. No one is. It's all good as long as your heart and intentions are true. Luv you
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