Blending Into One

It takes someone really amazing, for them to choose to be a parent to a child when they didn’t have to be. My dad is one of those amazing people who had the courage to do that. He knew and understood that when he married my mom that there would be difficulties and challenges that would come because she had a four and half year old. But, he chose to be what I have always called “an instant dad” and wanted me to be his daughter. We have never considered the term “step” in our relationship because I wanted him to be my dad as much as he did. He has never loved me any differently than my sister or brother and I love him even more for that. Technically we have a blended family if you look at it through the eyes of society. However, I don’t feel like it is a blended family because choices were made that made us one complete family unit. I know that this is uncommon and is not all blended families have a happy ending. My mom and I got lucky because we found her prince charming and me a father who loves me as his own.       

Parents Take Their Child's Hand and Lead Them Through Life

Parents are responsible for so many things in their child's life. Parents are suppose to build a home where the child feels safe from the world; a place where they can escape everything that is bad in this life. Children learn from their parents and parents learn from their children. Children and parents work together to survive in the family. They need each other because to other helps them grow into a better person. Parents need to teach their children in a way that helps the child grow stronger and that one day they will be able to survive on thier own. Parents create a foundation for the child and that foundation can either be solid and hard like a rock or moveable and wavering like sand. If a child does not have a secure foundation they can fall later in life when the child is on their own. My mother at a young age took my hand and lead me through life but she let me trip, fall, and learn my own lessons; however, she was always there for me when I needed her. She never let me fall and still won't let me fall in my life. My parents taught me how to stand on my own; but, to rely on people when I needed help. The relationships with my parents are two pf the most important relationships in my life. They started the foundation for my life and gave me the tools and supplies to finish creating a unbreakable foundation in my life.