writing from a college course

Probably the single most important transition in one's life is the transition to parenthood. Before children you can sleep in as late as you want on weekends, enjoy late nights with your spouse, spend time with your friends, and enjoy peace. After children Life is more wonderful than before. Every thing is chaotic and beautiful at the same time. Here you are responsible for another life and helping your child become a good person with morals and a sense of responsibility and a personality all their own. Teaching them manners as well as building their confidence in themselves. Helping them find their individualism and encouraging them to be individuals and not to follow the crowd. The worst transition a kid can make is the transition into terrible two's. A whole new parenting style is learned for this phase. In my case I let my child have melt downs. I could not do enough to stop tantrums and my children did not want to be coddled so I just let them do what they needed to. I have learned that with every phase of a child's life a phase of a parent's life is made. When my kids learned to walk, I learned to baby proof the house, when my kids learned fluent vocabulary, I learned it is not important to correct it is only important to encourage,when my oldest went to pre-school I learned it is important to let go a little so they have room to grow and be independent. I never imagined how much I would learn as my children grew, but I have learned a lot with them and I have many years of learning to go. That is the marvelous thing about parenting, you are supposed to teach your kids and yet they end up teaching you more than you ever thought you could learn.