KISS/ WEEK #166: Children don't need things, they just need responsible parents.
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Children don't need things, they just need responsible parents.
I have already spoken on many occasions about the responsibility that having a child means. It is not only making them and bringing them into the world (that's the easy and fun part), it also means taking care of them, feeding them, educating them and making them, in the end, useful people for society. Maybe because I understood the size of such a job, one day I decided not to have children.
But I have 5 nephews who are my life (actually now there are 4 because one died last year, at the age of 18, of bone cancer). Five nephews with whom I have shared not only their most incredible and festive moments, those that are good for taking pictures; I have also been there when they need a comfort, a hug, a loving word: in those moments in which very few people stay.
I must admit that my nieces and nephews are my weakness, my pride, the children I did not have; maybe that is why I try to teach them many things, those things that I would have taught my children. I try, and perhaps the verb try is conjugated in all tenses, to teach them that they must be conscious, responsible, happy and above all: they must believe in themselves. If they believe in what they are, in what they have, nothing and nobody will be able to stop them. Likewise, I have instilled in them the value of things, to appreciate the smallest things, to be grateful, to live in the present, to help and to give, even if you have little.
When they were kids, we had fun going to the beach, going to the movies, having an ice cream, but they also had fun doing crafts, playing, drawing, reading, creating stories. Knowing that my nieces and nephews, at some point, wanted to be teachers like me, to travel like me, to study like me, is indicative of the influence I had on them. Discovering that gives you joy, but it also gives you fear, because you know that it is a very big responsibility to serve as an example.
One day, I remember, my sisters asked our parents how they managed to provide for us, we are 5 siblings, and I thought the answer was intelligent: “We only bought them what they needed. It is part of a child's nature to want everything, but that is what adults are there for, to stop them. “Children, like plasticine, will be what adults make of them. So when we see non-conformist children, with mountains of toys, untidy, let's remember that it is the reflection of their parents.
The images are from my personal gallery and the text was translated with Deepl
Thank you for reading and commenting. Until a future reading, friends
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Thank you so much, friend @melinda010100. Many successes to you and to all the @ecency team.
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Happy and immensely grateful for your support, friends. Many blessings
Do you know that we have a word in English called Niblings... it is similar to siblings ... but Niblings is for your Nephews and Nieces, both start with a N hence Niblings...
I know you are a heroine to them, I know you would be if you were my tia! A big hero hug to you tia Nancy
Hahaha. Surely if I were your aunt, you would be one of my favorite nephews, Ed!!!! Sending you a hug without a heroine's cape.🫂
Haha surely I would Nancy ;)
I equally agree that the answer your parents gave was truly intelligent. I didn’t even see it like that and most people deprive their kids of things to teach them that they won’t always get what they want in life but to me, I think your parents approach is the best.
Falling into the temptation to give them everything is easy. What you have to teach them is that they must earn things and that material things are not the most important. Greetings and thank you for your comment