What Makes Parents Special?

What Makes Parents Special?

Where would we be without our parents? Would we have taken a different path in our lives that could have led to a bad outcome? Without a parents guidance, there is no way to know how our lives would have turned out or the situations we would have had to face without their support.

From the day our parents were told that we were conceived, I can only imagine the joy and happiness they felt, especially our mother's who get to experience the feeling of us growing in her womb. I know our father's were just as excited, wondering if we were going to be a boy he could teach to play football, or a little girl who could melt his heart with one grin. Either way, I bet they were only hoping for a happy, healthy baby!

It's our parents that teach us from birth how to reach different milestones in life, from crawling, walking, talking, all the way up to driving a car. There is no doubt that a parent's job isn't easy, but I know it's a rewarding experience full of love and pride when we learn and accomplish the things they work so hard to teach us. It is our parents that mold us to be the people we are today, without them, there is no telling where we would be today.

As children, we look up to our parents and strive to learn all we can as they help us through the early years in life. However; as teenagers, we tend to distance ourselves from our parents and try to make our own decisions; whether good or bad. It is at this age we are seeing the world in a whole new light and we are tempted with so many things now available to us in the world. This is the time we need our parents the most. We need them to teach us the good, the bad and the ugly that is out there. Even though I know this is also the age that we tend to rebel and not listen to our loved ones, it is a very important time in our lives that mold us into adulthood.

Parents go through so many stages of emotion when raising children. From the newborn age to adulthood, there are many ranges of emotion such as joy, happiness, worry, fear, love, heartache and so on. But through it all our parents love us and do their very best to help and be there when we need them. Just because we are grown doesn't mean we don't need our parents, we will always need them, no matter what!

So, if you ask me why are parents special? My answer would be because they give us unconditional love from the time we are born. They do their best to raise us to be upstanding adults and even though we may not realize it, if we didn't have our parents, we would be heartbroken, lost and confused. So, the next time you see your parents, be sure to hug them and let them know how much you love and appreciate them.