All bets are off when we have even the slightest image of our kids being in some kind of danger.
Calm resolve, consistent focus, consummate professionalism, model character, and everything else we may own as part of us can literally go right out the window when there is no available communication to assure us that our seed is safe and sound where we left them.
From the time our children are born all we as good and responsive parents want and try to provide for them is our very best, and what is the very best for them.
We do all we can to help them not to cry, hurt, misunderstand, or fear.
At any cost, by any means, and for every reason that seems valid enough for us to come up with.
As parents, we teach our children to be strong survivors whose resilience will get them through even the most difficult situations.
But, let us for a moment think our kids may be hurt or in harm’s way and we who are usually the strong can easily become melted mush.
And, we love our children so much we just mush our way around until we can regain comfort in knowing our kids are fine.
So when they are babies, we sometimes cry when they cry until they stop crying.
During their toddler and elementary years, if they fall and hurt themselves we also feel hurt.
Among the middle years, unfairness or injustice for and to them can at times translate into feelings of unfairness and injustice for and to us.
A teen’s appearance of nonchalance that is really a mask to cover a true fear of growing up and having to leave “the nest” can easily become a parent’s anxiety if the mask leads the teen to do something completely out of character and downright risky.
If we think for one minute that our precious gems called children are distressed, we can also become stressed and behave out of our own character.
Our minds can’t think straight, we can’t communicate the right way…and, all of that is irrelevant because all we care about is getting our kids back to that cozy, safe and sound place…right where we left them…
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND...Let's all keep our children cozy, safe & sound...they really are the globe's most precious commodity...
Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader & school district administrator who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc. This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog. View other published works at http://www.examiner.com/. Contact Sharon directly for more information: smbiggs@mylifelinefoundation.org.
"Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)
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