I am so glad that I became a mother. I love my children just the way they are. And through them, I have become a completely different person. There is hardly anything that makes you grow and develop as much as having children.
Still, in weak moments, I sometimes look wistfully at people my age without children who have so much more time and money to do the things they love. Among them are truly wonderful people who invest their time and energy into other people’s children. This deserves appreciation as well and helps relieve parents in ways they urgently need 🤍
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What are some of the ways you mentioned that people support other people’s children?
On the one hand, in professional settings, especially in educational fields. When you are both a teacher and a mother, like I am, you often don’t have enough energy to give both your students and your own children the quality you want for them and that they deserve. Someone without children has more free capacity because they can recover better in their free time.
On the other hand, in private life, for example, by looking after the children of friends so that those parents can take a break. Or by doing activities with children that parents may not have the time or the skills for (music, crafts, etc.).