I'm starting this blog as a way to try to make sense of my feelings and what's going on in my life. I've got four children and starting to wonder if I did something wrong in raising them. Let me say this first off, they are all great kids and maybe I'm just having a hard time letting them grow up. I know I need to let them make their own decisions and their own mistakes, but it's so hard to just sit by and watch it happen.
I wonder if I did a good enough job of teaching them compassion and empathy. I worry they think only of themselves and not enough of others. I try to think back to when they were little, we were only worried about ourselves and no one else? I know we didn't volunteer, would that have helped teach them empathy and compassion? Did I really raise children who can't understand other people's problems and how their past may affect their present actions?
Did I give my kids too much? I worry they think everything should be handed to them, that if they don't like their job, they can just have a bad attitude and quit or not do a good job. I sometimes think they really don't think they even need to work, that I'll take care of them.
But yet all our friends comment on what wonderful children we have raised. Am I only concentrating on the bad and not seeing all the good?
So much to think about...
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