Parenting Three Kiddos

I am constantly learning how to be a better parent and teacher to my three kiddos. There are days I feel like I’ve totally got this gig down, and then there are those “reality check days” when I am reminded that I have absolutely nothing figured out, and I need to revamp all my strategies.

When I had my first child everything was new and I felt like I was learning all the many tricks to parenting a child. When my second child joined our family, I was sure that all my previous experiences with our oldest had in fact prepared me for the challenge of mothering any child. Oh how wrong I was. The second little boy I brought home from the hospital had completely different needs and totally different expectations of me, as a mother. Thankfully, I was a little more realistic when my daughter was born. And she proved to be yet another completely different individual than her brothers.

I guess parenting three children is a lot like planning a road trip three different times and taking completely different routes to get to that final destination. I am hoping to raise all three of these amazing individuals to be strong adults who will have the ability and the vision to make the world a better place than they found it. But the path to that dream is completely different with each of these little kiddos.

I love the way they challenge my abilities, thinking process, and sometimes my patience. They keep me humble with their understanding of the world and their insights into how others should be treated. Kids come innately pure and kind. I pray that I am able to nurture this natural talent. I want to give them the strongest foundation possible to build their personalities and become solid in the knowledge that they truly are capable of making a great impact on the world around them.