Becoming a Parent
There are many different ways of becoming a parent. For many people the traditional option of having a baby the old fashioned way is not an option. Therefore, many people turn to alternative methods of having a baby or acquiring a child. For some people this may involve many trips to the doctor for fertility treatments, while for others adoption resources or foster children, are their best solutions. No matter how you become a parent one thing is clear, once you have a child your life will be irrevocably changed forever.
Your child, in most instances will start as an infant. May sleep, may not, but still is pretty simple to deal with. As they grow, you will watch them change and your concerns about parenting will change as well. Initially the concerns will be about their development and you will consider issues like nutrition for kids. You will decide what they eat, watch on TV, hear and so forth. This blessed time will pass quickly to the next phase.
The next phase is the introduction of a whole new factor called peer pressure. You may think that this is something that only teens deal with, not so. It begins as soon as they enter school. You will begin losing control over what they are exposed to as now they know the “outside world”. This will include wanting to eat junk food like Timmy, wanting to go to bed later like Chris, and wanting the newest latest toy like Sarah’s. This is only the beginning of the world’s invasion of your wholesome child.
As they grow and change, your only hope is that some of what you are saying to them is sinking in, because now you are in the teenage years. This quite frankly is a place, where many don’t even recognize their own children. The shift has been made to all the outside forces taking over, while you sit in the back wings hoping that maybe one little thing you have said or done will make a difference. You pray, even if you are not religious, after all, there is nothing else to do. You hope and pray that you have done something right and that they will snap out of it soon…Don’t worry, they will.
Then they become an adult, because the truth is that most children and parents actually do come through to the other side. All the praying must have paid off, because somehow in the end of it all you find that good hearted loving human being that you lost for a while, but now they are back and you can finally at last see the end result of all your hard work. Now, for some it takes until the twenties or thirties, but when you get there you can finally pat yourself on the back and say, “It was all worth it!”.
