Kellogg's Korner

[fatherhood_fridays]

There was still no topic that I saw for this Friday, so I was not sure what to write about. I am going to go with a standby, as if I was doing anything other than that before now. I just find it slightly annoying that so many of the FF posts have nothing to do with being a father or a parent in general. I want to stick with the Fatherhood theme for my FF posts.

I am the proud father of two of the most wonderful girls in the world. The are some of the best behaved children I know of, and that is not coming from just me. We can take them out to recreants and not worry about them throwing fits most of the time.

That is until the past few weeks. Our youngest has started to act up more and more. She has hit the “I WANT” phase. You know the one I am talking about, when they want everything and they want it now.  We are a bit of a gadget family, we have all sorts of things to play with,one of which is the Nintendo DS. For those of you who have been under a rock for the past few years, this is the Nintendo hand-held game system. Well, little miss I-WANT has gotten it into her head that she should get this all the time with all the games she thinks she might want to play. When the oldest is trying to ply one of her game, the little one wants that game or the DS all to herself. I have gotten to the point of just taking it from them both to stop the arguing. For the most part this works, one whines for a bit and the other runs to her room crying, which I can live with as ling as she is not physically hurt.

On top of the fits over a gaming system,she has come to the point of only Mom can do anything. This kind hurts my feelings some times, but even our older one went through that phase, so I have come to terms with it. One thing I have decided not to put up with is temper tantrums about who turned on the TV or who opened the door. when I get home I get to hear a lot of crying over me putting my foot down one saying “NO”.

Some times I wish I could just stay home so that Teresa could get more of a brake than she does. I see just a portion of what she goes through while I am at work. Because of just what I see, I have a lot of respect for any stay-at-home parent. Children are some of the best things in our lives, but that are also the biggest test of what type of person we really are. I have known many people who would never make good parents as they are. My children are awesome, but sometimes they need to be show that they are not the boss.

We need to treat our children as the gifts they are, but don’t let them be the ones in charge of the relationship. Even in the bible it say, “spare the rod, spoil the child”.This does not mean that is what you need to do, it is meant to tell you what will happen f you do not take charge as a parent. So many children are growing up with out parents in the home, and with out the discipline they need to be truly productive citizens. If you do not show them what is right and wrong, who will?

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