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Being a parent is about the hardest job ever! I am learning invaluable lessons every day about being a mother. From one stage of your children’s lives to the next, the dynamics keep changing and your job as a mother simply never ever stops.
Our job as mothers is not about fixing our children’s lives, but primarily to teach them how to live as best as they can, how to cope, how to rise again and again, ‘cos when they become adults, life’s problems don’t go away – they simply morph into adult problems and all we have taught them as parents will serve them well.
No matter how earnestly we might wish it differently, we can’t fix everything. Sometimes, we have to let our children figure things out for themselves. Sometimes, we have to stay by the sidelines, on our knees bowed in prayer, waiting for them to come to the other side.
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As you said, we can’t fix everything, but just offer them a better conditioning.. live by example
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Definitely living by example is one main factor.
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Absolutely ❤️❤️❤️
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So true, Jacqui! Mothers can only to the best they can. I don’t envy those that are bringing up their children today.
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Honestly, Eugenia, I firmly believe that the changing times make it tougher.
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I’ve always likened it to letting them steer life’s boat themselves, but giving little nudges occasionally on the tiller to keep them on the right course!
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Now, that’s definitely a fitting analogy.
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Excellent. We have to guide them into making choices and learn to deal with life. If we do not allow them to fix their lives they will not be able to stand for themselves as an adult. Raising children has never been easy each era has or had it is difficulties. Great points to think about.
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Your words remind me of what my mother said some time ago. She said that it’s never easy from one generation to the next ‘cos parenting is an assignment that goes from womb to the tomb.
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Wise mother and very true. It is a life commitment
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With the work we must find time to stop, believe and just breathe. 💙
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Absolutely, otherwise we will lose our minds 😉
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And isn’t it funny how I rarely miss it? 💙❄
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I tell my kids that my brain is fried. 😁 I started posting on Motherhood and i pat myself on the back for getting as far as i did.
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We have to make them capable of figuring out solutions to their problems, by giving them enough opportunities to learn thru their mistakes and by exposing them to the outer world. Sadly i think i have failed in tjis by being a protective parent.
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