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I would like to express my feelings on raising children, or, rearin young’uns as it was called when I was a child. I believe that a family should be planned these days. I know that accidents happen, but they should be few and far between with all the methods of birth control available today. I think that if someone is planning on children, they need to stop and realize that you are not simply producing a little baby doll to carry on your name and to show off to your friends and to turn your parents into grandparents. You will be producing a life. It’s not like a puppy where you can put an ad in the paper and give it away if you decide you don’t want it. It is a person, who will have to live with every decision that you make for them for the next 15 or 16 years for the rest of their lives. I say 15 or 16, because believe me, if you have any control over what they do after they reach 15 or 16 you will be in the minority. Before you decide to have children remember that you are making yourself responsible for the next 80 years of someone’s life even though you will control only about 1/5 of it. I heard a pediatrician say once that a baby is born with only 2 emotions, fear and anger. All other emotions are learned. Fear and anger are linked all through life, and if you are honest with yourself, and think about it, you will see how they have been linked in your life. If you are afraid of losing something that belongs to you, you might get angry. If you are afraid that a child might hurt himself doing something, you get angry with them. A child doing something dangerous is the fastest way for them to be punished by me, because the fright makes me angry. Even if someone jumps out and scares you trying to play, what’s your first reaction? How you react to your child’s fear, (I’m hungry and I can’t feed myself) and their anger (I’m wet and I don’t like it, I want to be held, and no one is doing it) determines how they will react to their fear and anger for the rest of their lives. You must give them security, without spoiling them, love without fail, and discipline with consistency. Set the rules early, make them simple, and do not stray from them. Children are small, not stupid. It only takes one time of you bending the rules for them to learn that rules can be bent.
Approximate Word count = 1756
Approximate Pages = 7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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