WE Will Never Be ABle To Change It

 

 

So we have had a very wet summer. If you live in Southern Ontario you have experienced nothing but day after day of rain, thunder storms and dampness. Arthritis pain at its peak in the elderly and those that suffer from the dreaded complication of life. So what can we do? We can complain to the ends of the earth, we can pray to whatever God there might be out there or can we just grin and bear it???

I have had all I can take of the grin and bear it idea. I know there is nothing I can do to change the weather and complaining makes it all worse but I just wish that it would be easy to flip a switch and have a few nice sunny days in a row. Well if it were that easy someone else would have done it by now.

 

So what about easy…..should life be easy or should we struggle? Struggle is good it keeps our animal instincts active and we never know when we might need to…well run from a bear let’s say…. Never mind about that really. We all have struggle and it is a part of life that make us stronger and causes us to grow. We need adversity to learn and we need to learn to grow. Humans can be so stagnant at times. It is almost as if we have become boring. You rarely see an adult discipline a child in public anymore and that child runs an muck right over Mom or Dad because the adults are afraid to say no in front of other adults for they may be judged, criticized or worse misunderstood and have malice placed where there may have been none to begin with at all.

It appeals me that parents will not take responsibility for their children or their behaviour. I cannot tell you how many times I have left a shopping cart full and left the store with my child as she was disturbing others. I did it once with each child they learned to behave. I know not every child is the same and not every person is the same and we do thing differently and, and, and, and…….I know. But this rant comes from deep within the channels of an overly judgmental society that is uneducated about child rearing. Since this is one of the most important thing we do in our lives….here is a thought do you not think we should have to take parenting 101 in school. We spend so much time on math and science and what you want to be when you grow up but we avoid the basic fact that we, most of us will be parents and have no clue how to care for and infant let alone the fumbling through the two’s and into the teen years.

 

Now those of you who do not know me might say who the @%^$#!# does she think she is???? Well just a bit of my back ground, I am a former RECE and I spent over thirty years in the child care industry. I have raised five different families, other than my own and two of those into the teen years. It was never easy but what it was for was a lesson before my own children came into being. Not so much practice but learning through experience.

Now you are all wondering what this must have to do with crying about the weather? It is something that we will never be able to change…..

 

 

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