Parenting (Being a Parent)

Member Name: uksammy

Product:	Being a Parent
Date:	22/10/08 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: Moulding your children into how you want them to be

Disadvantages: none

I had my first Daughter (I have two) when I was 20. I beleive my parents did a really good job in bringing me and my two older Brothers up. My parents were and still are my inspiration, what I look for in a parent and I hope I will always do a good job like them.

I always had family around and my parents had good friends. There was always children around and I never got bored, my Mum had little part time jobs that she could do from home and she took me to playgroup. We lived in a village and I went to the local village school that had about 60 children in total, there was only four boys and three girls including me in my year from reception through to year six. It was a nice school, my Dad went when he was a child, he'd lived in the village all his life.

I'm proud to come from a village, when I was old enough to go out around the village with my friends, my Mum could trust me and my whereabouts and not worry anything would happen to me. I had respect and when my Mum said a time to be in by, i'd be in. I wish society was still like that in our country.

I want to be my two girls Mum and best friend so they could tell me anything. I want them to be respectful, this is most important to me, as I find a lot of respect in our society has gone out of the window.

Though my girls are only 3 and 18 months old, I try to give them my time, encouragement and help. We bake, play, learn, play games and make things. They are well disciplined and my eldest uses the naughty step which works very well.

We have been to toddler group and now my eldest goes to Tumbletots as she doesn't get much time on her own. I don't have many friends and we don't go out much so the girls aren't that often apart from us and do get bored, I'd love them to have more friends their age like I did, but I guess soon my eldest will be at school.

Summary: I'm glad me and my Fiance have two beautiful girls