I am convinced that we need to morally correct our children - constantly and relentlessly - from teeny tiny tots to when they are 'all grown up' and become Young Adults. Directing them and returning them to the right path never stops. We will always be parents of children. No matter their age, nor ours.
Then we become parents to others and nothing really changes, other than the fact that we have a new "import" (as the Machinist and I fondly call the in-law children). We learn to love the new addition to the family and they become our own. We gain more love, and it increases and we desire to guide them, too.
Grandchildren arrive. They remind us, take us back to how we were, how we felt when we were raising their parents. Sometimes shuddering when recollecting those early years and all the mistakes we made. We don't want that for our children and our children's children.
And so it begins again. The guiding, the directing. We now have wisdom and experience. We know that they will never turn back from wrong if we never show them.
We have to show them.
If we aren't intent on showing them the way, why are we parents?
How are we parents?
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