The hardest part about parenting is that at some point you have to let them go and make their own mistakes, the best part is that after those mistakes have been made they're going to need their mom! ;)
I was going to say a lack of sleep but I see you already took that one! hahaWhat is the hardest part about parenting?
At first is was the lack of sleep and the complete and total ignorance on my part of what parenting was! I had been successful academically and successful in the corporate world - how was it that this little being could bring about such problems! Why could I not apply process resolution and fix it!!! So the doubt of my compentence also suffered.
But now - 9 years and 3 kids later - I find the hardest part is the incessant worrying. Worry if they wake up, if they will hurt themselves, if they will do well in school, if they will cry when they get shots, if they will have a tantrum, if they will have friends, if they will get their heart broken, if they will choose a succesful career, if they will find a spouse, if they will be parents, if they are healthy, if the economy will fail them, if they will get hit by a car................ you get the gist.
Incessant.
I think the hardest part is the decision making about what is important and what is not. You have to pick your battles instead of being a control freak. It sounds as though you haven't got to the adolescent years yet, but when you do, you will constantly be making judgments about what needs attention and confrontation, and what you can let slide.
My own patterns of behavior, particularly it was necessary to suppress how I had been parented and look at what was best for my son.
When he was thirteen, his mother left. We worked out that we would negotiate expectations for him and me in writing, in advance, and write them down in contracts.
The best conversations we had when he was a teenager were over the telephone or at 5:00 in the morning, when I was getting up to go to work and he was getting close to bedtime. Well, that was in the summertime.
There were times when he was the parent in the relationship, and he did it extremely well. Drop me an e-mail and I will fill you in on that, or the contracts.
haha yes lack of sleep is definitely a challenge...for me its also discipline. I'm not a tartism promoter but its hard ffor me to be a dad and not the friend cause i guess i'm a goofball, its just hard for me to be serious, and when i am my kids trip out and look at me like ';who are you and what have you done with my dad';
The hardest part is watching them grow up. I look at my 12yo and wonder everyday where my little girl went to. I miss my lil booboo with pudgy lil cheeks smiling up at me with her hair up in pigtails and smudged peanutbutter on her face holding a stem of what use to be a flower that she picked just for me. Now a 5'6'; tall (and still growing) young woman with boobs and an attidue with streaked hair and holding a hand out for money stands before me! lol
I have told her for years now ';Quit growing up so fast!!!'; She never listens! It really makes me sad sometimes, and tear up thinking how fast she is growing up. She'll soon be 13, then 16 then she'll be gone. Ack! Make it slow down, please!
i would have to say dissaplen and for newborns waking up at night
i have 4 sisters and 2 of them are 2 1/2 and 1 they both get up at night well there sick right now but that makes my mother cranky and when you wanna go places its hard when my moms cranky lol i dunno i think its the waking up at night (i dont have kids just sisters)
my oldest is still only two but so far the lack of sleep has been my biggest complaint. if i could just get some decent sleep i know i would feel better throughout the day, have energy to exercise etc. but i am just run ragged.
the fact that i am on call 24/7 is rough to handle too. they dont care if i am sick, they dont care if i am tired. no one does. i just have to keep on going no matter what.
i really hope this pays off in the end lol
I would agree with the lack of sleep. My son is only 7 mos., so I'm not anywhere near 11 years yet. I would also have to say his fussiness. He's fussy all day everyday and isn't a good sleeper, so I'm constantly having to think of things to do to keep him entertained/content. He's exhausting!
when they don't listen to you
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they are annoying and sometimes hateful. but you love them. the hardest part is letting them go.
I'm going to have to go with the lack of sleep, the tons of laundry, and the back aches!
Not knowing the ';correct'; answers to everything or every problem that has presented its self...
The hardest part is when they are in trouble.
Maybe the lack of a normal lifestyle for you and your spouse
the diapers.
the babys mama !!!
punishing
raising
dealing with ur the child's feelings and their school problems
teens
its a full time job
all of it!.... and there is never an end!! lol.huge learning experiance, everyday!
me parents sleep kids making noise etc
Well my least hardest would be beating the abomination.
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