Not to long ago my hubby and I started looking at starting
our own business and with that came a lot of time into research and
consultations with professionals. I absolutely love anything to do with
business. But as we submerged our selves into growing a business our
relationship with our daughter started to fall apart.
I used to devote hours to doing projects, reading, going
places and cooking together with my little love bug but as that attention
started to fade she started to act out. Everyone talked about children going
through terrible 2s but I was certain it started at 3. My daughter would
misbehave to the point that I would watch myself become more and more impatient
with her and therefore was creating this toxic relationship I vowed I'd never
have with my daughter. My husband would let her watch cartoons to help with
this bad behavior but for me, numbing your brain with a moving image is
reversing all the teaching and time that I've invested into my daughter.
I strongly believe that television, video games, and
computer games are the worst thing you can do for your child! So, as we started
focusing more and more on business I started giving a huge deal of thought into
putting my baby into school. Many who know me know how much I've wanted to home
school her but with a second baby on the way it started to make more sense to
start researching all our options.
After interviewing 4 preschools, I've noticed how excited my
little darling was in that environment. As a mother I felt proud that she would
do great and decided to enroll her in a
Christian school.
The first day of school was the hardest on me. My darling
was so excited. We packed the lunch bag together with all her favorite snacks(
strawberries, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes) As we started driving my mind
was searching for reasons to turn around, to go home but despite my internal
protests I knew I would follow through with this task.
We walked to her classroom and she was soo happy to be
there, she didn't look back to see if I was still there, she was right at home. It broke my heart seeing her fully occupied and not looking back to see if I was still there.
As I went on with my daily routine the pain became
unbearable. Tears just started pouring out of me with no end in sight. I
arrived at the gym and somehow managed to pull myself together. Memories
flooded my mind of how we would do everything together and all of the sudden I
was alone, learning to walk on my own again.
You write beautifully and share feelings that many parents have. People today have a fear of being alone, this fear can be dissolved by understanding the "secrets of feelings". It is okay and normal to focus on your business, feeding out children is essential part of life. I used to feel the same way about computers, games, etc. Until I woke up to the "real world" and understood how blessed many disabled kids are to have computers they can talk to that can type their books with speech recognition. Kids learn faster and better, I am convinced, I've researched this for 20 yrs. There needs to be a balance and constructive learning. The key to a child's heart is love, it is the only thing that changes them and opens their soul, pain will shut the door. There are a lot of great sport games you can do with the kids. We recently got the xbox with 'just dance' and planning to get Zumba, weight loss and more. Try finding a fun game that gets her and you moving together even in the house. Sophia
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