This weekend's NY Times article When They're Grown, the Real Pain Begins highlighted that you will be worrying about your child forever and that parenthood is even more difficult when the child reaches adulthood.
I get it now and I can't apologize enough. I know why my parents stayed up waiting for me to come home despite me telling them to sleep and not wait up. I apologize about begging to drive during insane snowstorms when I was a high school student and thought that the Phish concert )(during a blizzard!) was the biggest deal ever. I understand why my mom wrote me a postcard every day during freshman year. I am thankful for the long conversations after multiple break-ups post college. I am appreciative of the career advice and now am thankful for the advice I'll get about raising this little man.
Yes, times are different in the notion that we have more baby-specialty items, we lay babies on their backs, and tummy time is a requirement, but at the end of the day, times are the same. The most important element of parenthood is having your child feel loved and cared for--to establish trust and boundaries, to help him gain confidence and curiosity about the world, to be kind and embrace knowledge, to be compassionate and to not be judgmental The list goes on... I am thankful that I have two wonderful role models to help us figure out this beast of parenthood. Thanks in advance for now being on the other end of the worrying G and GG.
And until little Ethan is grown, I'll continue to watch him sleep and worry about (and treasure) the grunts and gurgles and coos I hear.
I get it now and I can't apologize enough. I know why my parents stayed up waiting for me to come home despite me telling them to sleep and not wait up. I apologize about begging to drive during insane snowstorms when I was a high school student and thought that the Phish concert )(during a blizzard!) was the biggest deal ever. I understand why my mom wrote me a postcard every day during freshman year. I am thankful for the long conversations after multiple break-ups post college. I am appreciative of the career advice and now am thankful for the advice I'll get about raising this little man.
Yes, times are different in the notion that we have more baby-specialty items, we lay babies on their backs, and tummy time is a requirement, but at the end of the day, times are the same. The most important element of parenthood is having your child feel loved and cared for--to establish trust and boundaries, to help him gain confidence and curiosity about the world, to be kind and embrace knowledge, to be compassionate and to not be judgmental The list goes on... I am thankful that I have two wonderful role models to help us figure out this beast of parenthood. Thanks in advance for now being on the other end of the worrying G and GG.
And until little Ethan is grown, I'll continue to watch him sleep and worry about (and treasure) the grunts and gurgles and coos I hear.
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