children and values you didn’t know you had
Mar 2nd, 2008 by Dani
I feel the need to break into a non-food related rambling. We had Son and Heir’s Kindergarten welcome picnic today. As I was preparing our picnic food, I was pondering on the things you learn about yourself when you have children.
When I was in my twenties, sewing several tons of wild oats, I never even imagined I would have children. I certainly never imagined at 27 that at 37 I would be the mother of 2. Furthermore, I never imagined how important a strong sense of community and community involvement would become to me.
I think it would have been reasonable to assume, although I didn’t way back when, that I would be likely to take on the values of my own mother when children enter the equation, and in many ways I have done that. It’s the other values that have taken me by surprise. This community thing being the example that has been simmering in my mind today. I work locally, my children attend creche at my work place, my son is at a local kindergarten, I am on the committee of management of the kinder. I see people, families, children we know everywhere we go. I like that.
I truly believe in the old adage that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. But there is no village any more. In terms of practical help, we don’t even have family close by. So I guess that’s why the importance of community has become near and dear to me.
And that is my personal revelation for today.
So. Feel free to share…what unexpected values have you discovered within the murky depths of your conscious mind? Or not murky.
