Watching the kids grow up

Today's young parents are so wrapped up in the rat race that they have really not much time for anything else.We teachers are different because when we were teaching we only worked half a day and had time for other things after school.The more enterprising ones ran tuition classes and made some extra pocket money ( sometimes more than their salary ).We had time on our hands and part of this time was spent on the children, watching them go through the various stages of life and prodding them along the way. After the children grew up they became adults in their own rights and made their own homes for their own families .As grandparents now we are required to help them look after their kids and having gone through the rat race we are able to fully concentrate on the little grandchildren We are blessed to be able to follow the growth of our 3 grandchildren to see them grow from infancy to where they are now.The two elder ones are already quite independent and moving on to their school life where we hope the teachers can enrich them in terms of knowledge and values.It is a joy to be able to see them grow and develop from babies, crawling, walking uttering their first few words and basically making the parents proud every step of the way.When they come to school age we can see the character formation period happening.They reason, argue ,question and begin to show their traits.A lot of understanding child psychology , child development is necessary to help them through this stage. Yes, parents will enjoy watching their children grow up but we must not forget that we as parents have important roles to play in the child's growing up process.To balance our time for the kids with what we have to do is not that easy.responsible parents will have to learn to strike a balance here , how to cope with the demands of their work and their responsibility in bringing up their children.This is never an easy task and represents one of the challenges of parenthood which can be a joy or nightmare depending on how we handle it.