“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman politician, lawyer, and orator who lived from 106 BC to 43 BC.
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Getting Old Because of the Young
“Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster too.” -Lionel Kauffman
Before we had kids, we used to dream about a big family, all grown up, coming to visit on Christmas and recounting all of the wonderful times we shared together. Then we had kids and we wondered if we’d ever make it to middle age, let alone old age. From the moment they are born, kids try our patience and they test our mettle. And that’s a good thing.
Because along with the extra gray hair and bulging middle (from all that stress related cortisol), we also gain more maturity and wisdom from our kids if we let the job do its work on us. Nothing asks more of us than parenting does. We must grow up if we want our kids to. We must admit our weaknesses and work on them if we’d like them to do the same. A tall order, to be sure, but one worth all the gray hair in the world. For when we allow our kids to teach us about ourselves, we can then be as free and joyful as children again.
-Hal Runkel, LMFT, Author of ScreamFree Parenting and ScreamFree Marriage
