by Charles R. Swindoll
Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
and the glory of sons is their fathers.
---Proverbs 17:6
We cannot change the past . . . and that includes the way we
reared our children.
All of us---yes, every parent I have ever met---would love
to step into the time tunnel and return to the Island of Second Chance. We
would give anything to relive those years and correct the failures and mistakes
we committed the first time around.
All such fantasy wishes need to be erased. They can never be
fulfilled! The parenting process offers only one try per child, one day at a
time, never again to be repeated.
Someone once said, "Life is like a coin; you can spend
it any way you wish, but you spend it only once." That is never more true
than with rearing children. About the time we get fairly good at it, our kids
are all young adults and gone. Having come closer than ever to perfecting the
process, we suddenly realize nobody is listening! Which means we're qualified
for one major role: grandparenting (when it becomes our right to break all the
rules and spoil those darlings!).
It's a funny world.
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