With Thanksgiving drawing closer, here are 5 Reasons to be thankful for your kids:
5) They are entertainment. How can a parent ever be bored? Kids can provide a constant stream of entertainment. From the faces they make to the things they say, an observant parent is an entertained parent. Of course, if you calculate the cost of providing for a child you realize that you are paying about $4,236 (an estimate) for each cute thing they say!
4) They are a magic mirror. The longer you look, the older they get, the more of yourself you can see in them. Look carefully and you will learn more about yourself than any other mirror can reveal. Unfortunately, when you look back at yourself it feels like one of those circus mirrors that add a couple dozen hundred pounds, and you wonder how you were ever so slim when you were a kid.
3) They are great teachers. Role reversal is an integral part of parenting. As much as we can teach our kids, there is much to learn from them if we pay attention. Now if we can just figure out how to guard them from picking up our bad habits!
2) They are our legacy. It is every person’s dream to leave their mark on the world, and every parent does, through their children. Which, in a round about way, is probably one of the reasons we’ll spoil our grandchildren.
1) They are love. There is no more amazing love than the love of a parent for their child. Except perhaps, the love of a child for their parent. Both are worth everything. And both remind us of the love from our Heavenly Father.
Of course, there are a million reasons to be thankful for our kids, from what they can teach us, and how we can see ourselves in them, to just the crazy, unexplainable love we have for them. Now if we could just get them to cut the complaining and just appreciate all the hard work it takes for us to cook them the giant turkey this Thanksgiving!