Sat here thinking… I want to write a blog about how much adults like to write songs talking about their undying love for their mother, their father and on and on. Parents love..Undying. Sometimes this epiphany happens when there is a crisis or perhaps someone gains new insights on life. Whatever the reason, it happens and makes the adult feel better about themselves. At the same time we parents suddenly realise how much we are appreciated. It’s funny. It’s all about expressing that deep down love for someone. Why is it so difficult for us to just say it out every day?
But them my mind wandered a bit because it’s not the mother or father bit that interested me. I was really thinking about the act of being a parent. More than parents love..Being a parent. There is a lot written on becoming a parent and all the spin-offs and consequences Parenting, however, is an active verb in every way. Because of this it has consequences Ever heard someone say ” how old are your children? Being a parent never stops eh?” Is this something we thought about before we started? Put up your hand if you did. I am not seeing many 🙂 And now they are 3, 5, 8, and so on and now we realise it’s really happening.
Some even say “Boy, what a day when they are gone out of the house and on their own!” Who is more happy at Christmas or Independence Day or Thanksgiving Day when they come for a visit? You or the long-lost child? Just thinking out loud here,,, and were you looking for and hoping to see that they had ‘pleasant’ memories of you?
So I found out that Morgan Heritage a reggae group from Jamaica (their father had 30 children), were approached by this interviewer with a question about how they think their kids see them. Take a listen to the interview. It seems all of us want memories to be positive, and especially fathers, warm and strengthening.
Like I started saying in a post, Still Time before Real School this is the only real time we will ever have to show that unconditional love that we love to talk about. This is when the wishes start on both sides as I know I used to think about what if they grew with some peculiar complex that I had no idea was in the making or what if….the list is of course endless. For them the wishes are real , unspoken and they don’t even realise there are wishes. Kids are real. Everything is real. From monsters to stars to teddy-bears and ducks. We just gotta make the best of the time before Real school.
In a tribute to the epitome of real and the reality of children Nat King Cole penned this beautiful song years ago. The young man that sings it, Erwin Lazaro, speaks passionately about the Parents Love..Wishes..Kids=Parenting. In his words “The desire to parent my children has to be balanced with the need for my children to grow and discover life for themselves”
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/ I’d have to say that parenting it toeughr simply because you can’t reason with a child or take time away because the child needs your care. Of course, sometimes the person you’re married to seems to be absent of the ability to reason or be fair. Maybe it’s both at once that is so challanging. But that’s life. Good things take effort and work.