Parenting

I know, with things the way they are I should be talking the economy or politics but this really caught my attention.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.<br />n<br />nEnder in Exile By Orson Scott Card</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis struck me as so true. I've been in a lot of life threatening situations in my life, but raising kids is the hardest and scariest thing I have ever done. There is nothing going on right now different than normal that brings this on. It's just a statement of fact. You never know how what you say or do is going to affect your children and any little thing can affect them positively or negatively in ways you would never predict.<br />n<br />nI always hear people without children say how easy it is to raise children. They always say you just tell them what to do and they should do it. If only it were that easy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying a person shouldn't raise kids, but it definitely isn't as easy as people think it is.