Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to appreciate such an innocent and pure moment!

Precious Moments

Parenthood has certainly brought so many different things to my and billions of other peoples lives.

Children are absolutely some of the most amazing and beneficial things that happen to us as people. It just takes the right circumstances and you have to be in the right mindset to see and appreciate these things!

The other day my son really hit me right in the feels. He got me with something that was so genuine and I wasn't expecting it but it was such a heartwarming thing to have felt and experienced.

I was laying in my sons room, helping him get to sleep the way that I do every night and he was having a challenge getting to sleep. I normally sing him a few songs, he calms down and he drifts off to sleep. This has been our routine for years now, ever since he was an infant. These days though, with him in school and just generally getting older those things are changing. It's a sad affair to see him getting older and becoming less of the little boy that is so precious and more of the little man that he is, that it can be sad to see but also amazing and empowering.

He was having a challenge falling asleep, which he sometimes does and I asked him what was going on, was he feeling like he was too warm or something and he said that he was so excited for the morning. I was thinking that he was just looking forward to school or something and asked him what he was looking forward to in the morning and he said "waking up and just talking about stuff". Damn that hit me like a ton of bricks! It was such a heart warming and powerful event that I had to choke back a couple tears. I know that being a parent is challenging sometimes on many levels but these are the moments that we live for, one hundred and fifty percent!

In the ugly world that we live in today, that seems like it's getting uglier by the day, one of the MOST important things that I feel is my responsibility as a parent and a father is to make sure that I protect and keep my son away from as much of that poison and vitriol as possible. They will have quite a bit of time living and experiencing that shit when they get older and become more aware of the situations and world around them, that it is imperative for us to make sure that they are sheltered from that bullshit as much as we can.

I want to emphasize that this does not mean they are fragile and scream when someone challenges them and their world view. This is by far the antithesis of what I am doing. I am working with him to build him into a strong and resilient man as much as I can but at the same time, I am cherishing and trying to foster him having as protected and idyllic of a childhood as I can allow him to have. Spending time outdoors finding bugs, sticks, rocks and all that shit that is what kids are supposed to do. These are the activities that I am trying to make sure that he has, enjoys and spends time doing. Not spending time on bullshit like social media, computers or phones. Those are the things that he will use when he gets older but keeping him removed from them as long as possible is the best case scenario.

When he purposefully enjoys and looks forward to just spending time with me, laying in bed and talking about life and random things on his mind and him picking my brain on topics that enter his mind. These are the moments that I know I will absolutely cherish and appreciate as he gets older because I know they are going to become less frequent as time goes on. That's okay though because he is forming his own personality, habits and interests much like I did when I was growing up.

The best thing that we can do is to support and try to guide them in the best direction that we can while at the same time trying to instill our important values and experiences in them so that they can become a better person than we were. I know that my dad was doing the same with me and I can say that it has worked in a lot of ways, and I am looking at my son to do the same with him. I know he is going to turn out to be a good man one day and these times where he wants to just lay in bed with me, talk about life and the things on his mind are critical and key memories and experiences for him is such a heart warming and important thing for me to try my best to do the right thing. The people who don't have children may not understand how important and emotional of a thing this is for a parent!

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