A Parent's Love

A Parent’s Love

A parent’s love is something that children long for more than anything in the world. As parents, does it not make sense that we also receive love from our children as well? We work so hard each day at work, maybe unappreciated by the boss, co-workers, or even clients. We pay bill after bill to keep food on the table and a roof over head. We want to teach our children that the world is not as loving as their innocent hearts my think it is so we simple show them the harshness of the world with our words and actions. We are tired from working all day and show them how hard work was by not playing with them, we barely get any time to ourselves due to responsibilities so we show them our lack of time by not spending enough with them, and since life has rarely treated us fairly we demand that they learn this lesson quickly by repeating it time and again. We only want the best for them so by preparing them from an early age that life is not fair we are doing right by them; right?

We long for love, appreciation, and respect so why are we not accepting it? Our children give us the appreciation of jumping in our arms as we enter the door from a long day’s work, they  show us attention when no one else even cares to ask how our day was, and they just simple want to be close and touch us when even our significant other may feel distant. Should we let our children love us the and shower us with appreciation when this is a feeling that we truly long for in the first place? We sometimes treat our children as if they are adults or adults in training. Putting them through a harsh boot camp with drills, discipline, and plenty of yelling (like a drill sergeant) but is this really the way to teach them discipline and is it really showing them that you love them as much as they love you?

Our children see the world from an innocent place full of wonder and excitement. Parents are the most wonderful beings of them all and all they want to do is express that joy that they have for being able to be in their parent’s life. They do not know the bills are due, they do not know about buying groceries, and they do not purposefully waste things, thinking about how much they cost. They simply like or dislike something not out of spite but because they are children. Let us realize that children are amazing little creatures that reflect the joy and love that we are supposed to feel while in this world. Let us amplify their feeling by simply giving it back. Love I mean. Show them with love and teach from a place of endearment. That is not saying to let them run over you, it just mean to empathize and try to see where they are coming from instead of making them always see where we are coming from and pay for the ideas that we have of how they may grow up to be like a man or woman we dislike by treating them unconsciously just as we were treated by the detested person. Let us allow our love as a parents to be as pure as the love of a child because we all deserve it. Love I mean.