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Myths about parenting
“Parenting is easy and it comes natural.” That
is a myth. That sound like someone who doesn't
have any children. That sounds like the lady who
said when I was in college I developed three
parenting principles. Now I have three kids and no
principles. A friend of mine had two daughters
and things were going really well with them. These
girls appeared near perfect. When they were in
Junior high my friend said he and his wife were
thinking about co-authoring a book on parenting.
Then out the blue a little boy came into their lives.
He is now four years old and my friend says he is
not writing a book, in fact he is reading everything
he can about parenting.
Perhaps no gap is greater than the chasm
between ‘theory of parenting’ and ‘parenting’
itself. I won’t say all the theories go out the
window s when the kids arrive, but I will tell you all
the theories are challenged big time.
Parenting has the greatest potential for
happiness in life, but it also has the greatest
potential for heartache in life. I think it is because
we love our children so much and we want the
best for them that we are blinded to certain
realities and principles of life. If, in our blindness,
we do not see the light, we who love them so much
actually become a destroyer of what we love. We
actually become the enabler of bad behavior. We
actually become the detriment to our own
children. Why, because we have bought into the
myths of parenting. We have loved them foolishly
and not wisely. Those whom we wanted to have
the best that life could offer we actually gave them
the worst.
Love
Steven W. Ingram
.
“Parenting is easy and it comes natural.” That
is a myth. That sound like someone who doesn't
have any children. That sounds like the lady who
said when I was in college I developed three
parenting principles. Now I have three kids and no
principles. A friend of mine had two daughters
and things were going really well with them. These
girls appeared near perfect. When they were in
Junior high my friend said he and his wife were
thinking about co-authoring a book on parenting.
Then out the blue a little boy came into their lives.
He is now four years old and my friend says he is
not writing a book, in fact he is reading everything
he can about parenting.
Perhaps no gap is greater than the chasm
between ‘theory of parenting’ and ‘parenting’
itself. I won’t say all the theories go out the
window s when the kids arrive, but I will tell you all
the theories are challenged big time.
Parenting has the greatest potential for
happiness in life, but it also has the greatest
potential for heartache in life. I think it is because
we love our children so much and we want the
best for them that we are blinded to certain
realities and principles of life. If, in our blindness,
we do not see the light, we who love them so much
actually become a destroyer of what we love. We
actually become the enabler of bad behavior. We
actually become the detriment to our own
children. Why, because we have bought into the
myths of parenting. We have loved them foolishly
and not wisely. Those whom we wanted to have
the best that life could offer we actually gave them
the worst.
Love
Steven W. Ingram
.
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