We have 9 grand children, and because we spend so much time overseas we have not had a lot of time with our own grand children. This time in Australia, it's actually all about getting time with them.
We had the youngest one all day today, cutest little guy on the planet and as I was just being with him, playing with him, doing everything for him, as he is only 11 months old, I just found myself staring at him and thinking of what an amazing opportunity it is to raise him. You get a child and you do literally get a blank check...he is neither good or bad, he knows nothing about nothing, what he becomes will be so heavily influenced by how you raise him, what you do and do not put into him. You will make him whatever he becomes.
I have never had my own children (all mine are step children), but today I saw the opportunity and the huge responsibility that comes with bring a child into this world. This is nothing new and anyone who reads this post will probably go "derrrr", but today I saw the blank cheque in the child...write on it whatever you want.
I haven't had children and it would be the one regret that I have, but at the same time I think "if I had had children, would I have been up to the task, would I have made the most out of the opportunity, would I have been able to carry the responsibility"?
Children do not come with instruction manuals, but I think they should, because perhaps while most parents do their best, I wonder what parents would change if they could start the process all over again?
Big thought day.