We have recently announced that we are expecting our second son and this news has been greeted with mixed comments from friends and family. Hence I have been impelled to write a post regarding the decisions you make as a parent and what is right and wrong.
Firstly, some people felt they needed to give us their opinion on the fact that our two children would have a small age gap between them. Then others inquired if we had planned the pregnancy. Well, yes we had planned him and the age gap between our sons is what we decided was right for our family.
Where children are concerned everybody seems to have an opinion of what is right and wrong and are only too eager to offer their ideas on the matter. Basically I say to all these helpful advisers... what is right for me and my family is right. Every loving parent wants what is best for their child and strives to provide them with the life they see fit. As a parent you work hard day and night to help your child adapt to the outside world and the structure of your family and society. This may include how and when you put your child to bed, the food you decide to feed them and the toy you choose to buy them. All important decisions and all unique to you and your family.
My main point here is that the choices we make as parents are right if they are made consciously and for the best of the child and the family as a whole.
So to anyone who may be doubting their decisions or to those who feel others' decisions are not 'right' i'd like to remind you that no caring parent would carry out something that would deliberately harm their child or family and that every person and family is different.
We can all agree on one thing and that is that we want what we consider to be the best for our children.
