Parenthood can be freaking hard. Some of us say parenting is one of the most difficult jobs. You’ve surely heard of one of those moments, or lived it yourself, including around-the clock-morning-sickness, cumulative lack of sleep, and poo-related events (or maybe all of those at the same time).
But what’s wonderful about parenting is that the benefits, more often than not, surpass the bad moments.
It can be the best thing in the world too. Really!
When we look at it carefully, we can find many reasons to treasure children and parenthood. Here are the proofs, collected in the form of 101 reasons to love and celebrate parenthood.
Here is what we talk about when we say we love parenting.
101 Reasons We Love and Celebrate Parenthood
- Their newborn gaze
- The delightful baby smell
- The first latch or feed
- Those tiny hands
- Those tiny feet
- That they look a bit like us
- The first smiles
- Getting hugs
- Giving hugs
- The crystalline laughs
- Neverending giggles
- The cute baby talk
- Carrying them around
- The first moves
- That they never give up doing better
- When they first cruise around the house
- The magical first steps
- When they become toddlers
- The first words
- Their first jokes
- That everything is a marvel to them
- Their first teeth
- The first tiny sticky hands everywhere
- Their barefoot walking
- Hearing Mommy and Daddy for the first time
- When they finally go putty successfully
- When we help them overcome difficult situations
- The way they melt our hearts
- Our love for them
- Their love for us
- That they are becoming our best friends
- The love grandparents have for them
- The first discoveries outdoors
- The first drawings
- Their bouncing joy
- Their free dancing
- That they celebrate life everyday
- When they proudly show their first teeth that fell out
- Their first adult teeth
- Doing crafts together
- Having crafts on the fridge
- Their shiny eyes when they talk
- Their zest for life
- Their simple happiness
- Their first attempt at swimming
- Their first bike ride
- Their happiness when they solve their own problems
- Their happiness when they get along with their brothers and sisters
- Their talk with us at night
- Reading out loud to them
- Showing them the world
- Their intelligent questions
- Their personalities
- When they confide their dreams to us
- Their innate goodness
- Their inner wisdom
- Their authenticity
- Their successes
- Their first written words
- Their first written words to us
- Their belly laughs
- Their pictures
- Their interesting views of the world
- Their first steps in autonomy
- When they finally ride their bikes alone
- When they are independent enough to sleep over at their friends or grandparents
- Our successful attempts at being calm and kind leaders
- Developing our parenting expertise
- Becoming better humans together
- Our mutual cooperation
- That holidays and birthdays are so joyful
- Working on a project together
- Cooking together
- When they cook us a meal
- Evolving conversations
- Their quest of learning
- Their questioning everything
- Their first learnings of everything
- Their explorations
- Their integrity
- Their tenacity
- Their will
- Their core values
- When they fall and try again
- When we fall and do better next time
- When they first can stay home by themselves
- Their autonomy
- Their creative solutions
- When they take part in the good in the world
- When they discover their own spirituality
- When they discover their passions
- When they discover their mission in the world
- When they meet the love of their life
- When they realize a dream
- When they are our best friends for life
- When they help us back
- When they write to us, call, or visit
- Their children
- Their grandchildren
- That we won’t stop learning together to become better human beings
- When we realize family is the best thing that happened to us all.
Let’s focus on the miracles of life and celebrate those precious moments!
You might want to bookmark or put this on your fridge for those hard days.
Just saying. (I know I’m doing it!)
Happy Mother’s and Father’s Day!
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Let’s inspire each others and add to the list! What else do you love about parenting? Add numbers (102. , 103. …) and your favorite things about parenting below!
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