Parenting Woes

Misery Loves Company – When parents get together, their topic of conversations inevitably centers around their parenting woes… well, at least for me, I’d rather tell, ask, discuss and find solutions to the huddles that I’ve had to cross in bringing up my kiddos.

But there’s something missing now. I miss talking with my s’porean mummys, my mummy kakis …it was really great having those weekend gatherings... and school holidays when we meet up for chitchat sessions while our kids play and the mummys get to talk and share.

And I miss the other wonderful ladies whom I meet up for coffee, high teas, shopping, meni-pedi… Got to catch up with you soon, beautiful ladies!

My parenting woes are all about my children’s growth… from dawn to dusk and from their heads to their toes…

Do you think about these too?

~ Are they eating well? Did I miss out on giving them something good and delicious?

~ What is their emotional well-being? Are they happy? How does things affect them?

~ Are the bad television programs contaminating their minds? How can I make sure that they’re safe from the evils of the world? Especially the cyber world…

~ How are they learning? Do they love learning? Have they acquired the love for learning?

~ Have they been able to make friends? And keep the friendship? Will their friends treat them well?

~ Can they relate to this world? What’s in store for them in the future?

~ Will they grow up to love God and honour Him with their lives?

Very often, when Timothy was younger, I would hug him and whisper in his ear, ‘I wish you were Peter Pan…’ With Tricia, I started telling her last year, that I wish she would be a 4-year-old girl forever.

With my 2 kiddos, there’s this certain age that I’d like to say ‘freeze’ and enjoy them in that way, forever…

When they drive me up the wall sometimes, I just wish for them to grow up...