My Children's Future

When you are old enough to have

Children,

like it

or not,

we are judged on how well we do raising them.

We are judged by their friends parents,

by their friends,

by school teachers,

and by neighbors.

Your older

Children

will be critical of how you raise the younger ones.

The worst critic though,

will always be yourself.

No matter how much you read on the subject,

take classes on how to raise them,

or ask the advice of family

and friends,

who have gone through it before you,

each child has a distinctive personality of their own.

And what might have worked for one child,

does not work for another.

My oldest,

can't hold a job for the life of him

and his family.

But I still love him.

My second oldest turned his life around so much,

after we gave him a stint of hard love,

that I am very proud that he calls me

Dad

today.

My eldest

and second oldest daughters are the little sweethearts of the family.

My siblings

and my father think they are the bee's knees,

by having a good head on their shoulder's.

I am often told that they are doing a wonderful job of raising a family of their own,

and keeping me alive in the process.

I have three others who still need time before they begin a family.

Yet,

there is always the one who protests your every decision.

The one who says,

"It's my life and I can do what I want with it."

Like I did when I was his age.

I was the one growing up who protested the system.

Literally.

I was a young hippie who thought we would change the

World,

before becoming a punk-rocker when I saw that hippies were becoming  yuppies.

What's my point?

I don't know if I have one.

All I can say is,

do the best you can

and be satisfied with that.

 I gave this to my

Father

when I was twenty-five years old.

This is,

Always Worried For My Children's Future

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
- Margaret Mead -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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