Parenting 2.0.

So let's come full circle with last weeks post. 

I had no intentions of scaring people out of wanting to be a parent, though it is a scary thing and the hardest role you'll ever play in life. 

I simply meant that it sucks to be raising something so beautiful, and know that they will be hurt and scarred and get torn down, and that your child will have to figure out a way to build themselves back up. Because you can't always save them, or they will be rotten. 

That's the savage bit, yet again. 

BUT, there's still beauty. There's beauty in that we can hope and we can love. 

I believe so firmly in hope. 

I believe that though at times it may be foolish and painful, there's 

Give all your love to your child. 

Let them experience how love should be given and received. 

Teach them that they can hope and they can persevere through the rough times. 

Show them that there's always light to be found in darkness. 

And most of all, let them know that in the hard times they face in their future they always have your arms to come home to. And in those moments when they turn to you for help, maybe cry on their shoulder, they will again feel like a child. Carefree momentarily, because their burdens are no more on their shoulder but yours. 

It is an honor to know that you'll be able to do this for someone. 

To wash away their worries, and bake them some brownies because chocolate makes it all better too. 

It's not all bad, in this ugly world. 

So long as we choose to be the light. 

Remember this, evil triumphs when good men do nothing. 

Give hope. 

Give love.