Who Parents The Parent
The whole concept of becoming a parent is so exciting and also pretty darned scary whether or not you have taken care of children before. When you are the parent you are the responsible person, the one who makes the choices that affect your young child’s total well being.
I know when my children were born no “How To Parent” manual accompanied them into this world. There was my son and there were the rectangular diapers and diaper pins. I could not figure out how to make that darned rectangle into the triangular shape I had seen on TV. Fortunately his Dad figured out something that worked until we were shown why rectangular diapers work so well when you know how to fold them! Well and also why they are so good at protecting you from that little boy’s uncontrolled spray! Hey, why doesn’t someone tell you that can happen?
While I am at it, how come no one ever tells you that gum ridge hurts like heck when that new baby latches on to nurse? Oh my goodness, there is so much to a being parent beyond the coos and smiles and cuddling. No one tells you about all that stuff—about staying up most of the night and day too, about never eating any hot food until your nursing child weans himself, about forgetting about sleeping until your kid leaves home ( slight exaggeration). Well, what I recall is the good times of being a young parent. In fact I believe Nature makes it so we only remember the good things and good times. Heck, if we recalled all the pain of the traumatic moments why in the world would we go through it a second time, or a third or fourth or however many times?
I know when my children were born no “How To Parent” manual accompanied them into this world. There was my son and there were the rectangular diapers and diaper pins. I could not figure out how to make that darned rectangle into the triangular shape I had seen on TV. Fortunately his Dad figured out something that worked until we were shown why rectangular diapers work so well when you know how to fold them! Well and also why they are so good at protecting you from that little boy’s uncontrolled spray! Hey, why doesn’t someone tell you that can happen?
While I am at it, how come no one ever tells you that gum ridge hurts like heck when that new baby latches on to nurse? Oh my goodness, there is so much to a being parent beyond the coos and smiles and cuddling. No one tells you about all that stuff—about staying up most of the night and day too, about never eating any hot food until your nursing child weans himself, about forgetting about sleeping until your kid leaves home ( slight exaggeration). Well, what I recall is the good times of being a young parent. In fact I believe Nature makes it so we only remember the good things and good times. Heck, if we recalled all the pain of the traumatic moments why in the world would we go through it a second time, or a third or fourth or however many times?
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