QuoteIt also feels like you wouldn't even have any time to spend with them if they're going to be forced into kindergarten when they're barely one year old, and then there's school. To me it seems like a lot of parents don't even know their kids nowadays because they're too busy to be together.
Unfortunately that is just too many times the case. Both parents are working and don't have time to spend with the children, thus the kids mostly grow up on their own and in many cases on the street.
Raising children is a big responsibility and should be thought out seriously before one decides to bring one into this world, unless they're ready to take on the responsibility. As for screaming children? Goodness, it never bothered me any, unless it was the type of screaming you would hear as a result of hair-pulling.
If you love children you find ways to work around the rough edges of child rearing, like turning a hair pulling session into some type of shared occupation, with some type of board game, or how about drawing, or telling them a story. Honest to goodness, I believe that as unfortunate and as sad as it may be, it appears that children today seem to have forgotten how use their own mind, their own ingenuity or imagination to entertain themselves.
I was lucky, I worked at a job that only took me away from the house for four to five hours a day max. I was home to send them off to school and I was home when they got back from school, doing the cooking scrubbing and cleaning and giving the kids their bath. Then there was also the usual home maintenance which involved a hammer and nails or a pipe wrench or working on my back in the mud to fix a bloody leaking pipe. Thank goodness I was still able to do my own mechanical repairs to my car in the back yard then. But still I made the time to spend with the kids.
The hardest part for me was to watch the last three children I had in my care get into their aunt's car and disappear, never to be seen again.
Cindy
