Raising a Child Today - the Way to Raise a Child in Today's World, and Love Doing So

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The Way to Raise a Child in today's World, and Love doing so

Timing is everything

Nicole Moses

1. Email: Mniquee@aol.com

University of Phoenix College

Raising a child

No one ever said it was going to be easy, no one ever said that becoming a parent came with a detailed book of instructions. But one thing is for sure it is not easy at all. When I became a mother for the first time I remember looking at both my mother and my child and saying the words "That's it?" to me I thought that the hardest part was over and that was the process of birth its self. To me that was the most traumatic part of becoming a parent. But my mother quickly reminded me that the "Hard" part was just beginning. So here I was taking my newborn baby home for the first time and I remember that the car seat was not in correctly, but back then it was what I thought looked right. My mother had went to a second hand store and bought the car seat instead of buying a brand new one. I can't complain though it was the thought that counted. That night at my parent's house I remember vividly how when my child was crying I didn't even hear her. Was that because her cries were very faint? Was it because I was just extremely exhausted? Or was it because I was not used to having a baby in my room and didn't really hear her? Well all of them are true. I was a young mother and the new being was my new subject that I had to adjust to and learn her and she had to learn me. But my mother actually came into my room and woke me to tell me that my infant child was crying. I actually was embarrassed and ashamed that my mother had to come in to tell me my own child was crying. But I made a vow that spring night that I would from that day forth hear her cries, burbles anything. I didn't want her to feel like I let her down.

That is what is wrong with many mothers today. They have children and they don't take care of them. All they do is make them and leave them for someone else to watch and care for, so they