Tuesday, January 6, 2009

LET YOUR CHILD GROW

The excitement that a baby brings to our home is warm and full of happiness. When announced that a woman is having a baby, everybody is excited and waiting for the baby to come out. Having a child is a dream of every married couple. For it is the completion of the marriage and a new stage of the relationship is emerging, the parenting stage.

Being a parent is unmeasurable and beyond words. Having a child in this world is not just a gift but also a great responsibility. From day 1 to up to the growing stage wherein the child explores the world of being a sociable being. Making friends with other youngsters and making new friends and acquaintances.

It is a fact that a child grows and enters into the schooling level. Parents provide all the necessary thing for the first school day. Notebooks, uniforms, bags, school shoes, lunch box and other things that are needed must be their. Since it is the first day in school, parents bring their child to the school and checks everything.

After schooling, the child is now a person, equipped with the knowledge and guidance from the parents and has a degree to face the corporate world. He know earns and leaves the house to work.

In this stage, parents must allow their child to be what he/she is. They must know that the child that they delivered in this world is now making her own life. Some parents are treating their child as if they are still babies. They control them and they decide for the life of their child. They are not parents but dictators and controllers. Let your child grow. Let them be what they want to be. Guide them and not control them. For they will become future parents of their own. Guidance is needed and not imprisonment.