Words
So many feelings, experiences and challenges are integral to the whole experience of being a parent. We have to learn everything from scratch. Sometimes it helps to write about your feelings, to help us work through the minefield of our own family experiences and what we want to pass on to our kids. Sometimes it just helps to have some time out for self-expression.
At Parenting Express we value honesty; this is not the place for the sappy, trite versions of ‘family life’ that surround us. We want to share what it really feels like, on good days and bad.
Your words are welcome! Read what others have to say, then go for it and submit.
“My patience, resolutions and beliefs are tested to the limits – sometimes daily.”*
Right at this moment one of my challenges is the constant, tuneless whistling from my elder son. When my boys were babies it was getting them to sleep or trying to figure out why they were crying. On any given day now, it might be squabbling, fighting, teasing, screaming, shouting or rudeness. Who’d be a parent? We might well question ourselves after the event, but we can’t very well put them back! Just how we find those inner resources, how we constantly demand more of ourselves, how we keep marching up that hill with a smile on our face and gladness in our heart at the sight of our ‘babies’ is one of life’s mysteries.
* © from Being Mummy by Anne‑marie Taplin published April 2007