Thoughts: How is our Home?
How is our home?
Are we there for our children when they come home from school, or are they kept busy with after-school programs (or television and games) day in and day out that they have very little time with us?
Have we (moms) ever felt that we have WASTED our ‘talents and brain’ because we have chosen to raise the kids ourselves, and forgo ‘opportunities to be useful elsewhere’?
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On this matter, a woman named Dorothy Patterson once said:
It is true that many ‘perfect jobs’ may come and go during the childrearing years, but only one will absolutely never come along again – the job of rearing your own children and allowing them the increasingly rare opportunity to grow up at home.
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Do our children grow up in a home where the parents are present and are actively involved in their lives?
It’s interesting to read about how this situation gets increasingly rare.
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To me personally, I believe every family is unique and every mom needs to struggle with her decisions with regards to her roles in her children’s lives.
May God grant us the wisdom to make the right choices everyday, however tough, however easy.
Food for thought.
