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Parenting is NOT for the Weak

Parenting is not for the weak. Parenting is a conglomeration of everything I never learned. Parenting is a journey, not a sprint. Parenting is easy...........said NO parent ever! Sigh.. Tonight is one of those nights when I sit alone, in the living room, contemplating where I need to make adjustments. The whole time I am really balancing where my emotions are running array OR where this is the truth I seek. Moments earlier I quoted the scripture Prov 22:6. "Train up a child in the way they should go and they will not depart from it" in order to justify my seemingly unfair choice to one particular child. As I said these words I am fully aware that my kids do not care WHY I am choosing the opposite of them. They don't understand the thought process of this hurts you as much as it hurts me. Quite frankly, I am SURE it hurts me more than them because the disagreeable words spoken on both ends lie etched within my heart. Every time I go through this moment, that sneaky voice r...