Parenting

When you are a parent, you have so much hope for your children.  You hope they listen to your counsel.  You hope they get a good education.  You hope they do better than you did.  You hope they are happy and have love. There is so much you don't know about parenthood before you become a parent.  That is probably why we sign up for it!  We have no idea what is coming...the joy, the pain, the exhaustion. Certainly, as women, we forget the pain of pregnancy, labor, and childbirth, or we would never have a second child.  I guess it is good we forget, so that we can become a parent again.