I was watching a children's tele program about Knowsley safari park with my son and we saw the birth of a Giraffe. Giraffe babies are amazing they just drop out get up and walk. Human babies don't work like that. They come out and cry and it takes them a whole year to walk and ages longer to be independent. We as human parents have a hard job parenting but as I was thinking about it, maybe we have it better this way.
Being a parent brings out the true 'us'. Our children can show us who we truly are. In me that is not always good. I don't always have much patience, I am often unwilling to compromise and don't empathise well. But maybe this is a good thing. Having children shows us those areas we need to sort out. It gives us as people greater opportunity to grow and change these things and to be the best we can be.
Our parenting and example will affect our children and who they will become but they also affect who we become. The challenge our children cause us can spur us on to become all we can be.
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