Life happens, and so does all that accompanies it. Our stories are unique because we all run our own marathons, juggling all that comes our way, trying to best every role we play.
A big chunk of this marathon involves our precious progeny. Raising my two, I realized that milestones aren’t just for children, parenting has it’s milestones too. Trust me, I had to learn to turn over, sit, crawl, stand and talk through them, not once but twice! I also realized that most parents were sailing in the same ship and so were the children.
Over two decades there, 22.9 yrs to be precise, I know parenting is not just about what our kids become, it’s about what we unbecome along the way too. It’s a work in progress for both, always. To be sensitive to the emotional needs of children of all ages essentially requires unlearning the conventional parenting methodologies that most of us are conditioned to.
The willingness to change and unlearn, doesn’t confine itself to parenting, and that’s its beauty. It also helps us run the rest of the marathon as changed people. How beautiful is it, that somehow, along with the children, we grow too.
