Being a Parent is Hard
Man being a parent is HARD. This morning my 10 year old princess left for school crying after I took her iPod from her after asking her for about 20 minutes to put it away and to continue getting ready for school. Then as it was time to leave for school the other girls left and she was behind going as slow as she could not caring if she was going to miss the bus or not so then we let her know that her friend could no longer come home with her after school.
It leaves me questioning, did I do it right? Is there a right way? What could I have done better? The last thing I want as a Father is to have my child leave for school mad or upset. I want our home to be a safe place of trust, love, compassion, and teaching.
This got me thinking about how life will be when they are teenagers and how to help them NOW so that they become amazing teenagers and eventually amazing and productive adults 
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So this got me reading articles and parts from some books about the home and parenting and I came upon this article.
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“Always we hear the cry from teenagers, ‘What can we do, where can we go?’
My answer is this: Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you’ve finished, read a book.
Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun.
The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something.
You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again.
In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone.
Start behaving like a responsible person.
You are important and you are needed.
It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday.
Someday is now and that somebody is you.”