When children come in with Mom, their legs don’t work. They have to be carried. When they come in with Dad, they get healed! No kidding. Kids are almost always carried in by Mom and seldom by Dad.
What can we learn from this?
- Moms have a hard time with “their baby” getting older…Dads are getting them in shape for yard work & taking the trash out.
- Moms tend to coddle…Dads tend to command.
- Moms can carry a child, 3 bags draped over her arms and a car seat and all supplies…Dads have a good day if they don’t leave their kids somewhere!
I look at parenting as being two banks of a river. With two firm banks a rive has direction, flow and stays clean.
Without banks a river becomes a stagnant swamp…yucky, smelly and dead.
Parents…be the banks (limits, direction, security) your child needs.
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