i am now experiencing what my parents were feeling when we were still in their care - meaning, still depending on them during our growing-up years. and we were eight, at that!
me, i have three kids. all in their "schooling-period". two are now in their third collegiate year, while the young one is in grade six and preparing for her high school years. being a mother, i want them to have the best in life - specially education. studying in a public school, i enrolled my children in a private school, buy them toys, clothes and things that we (my siblings) didn't/couldn't afford when we were children. their life now is much more "betterer" than ours. they have computer, ipod, celfons, television-, etc. all those "instant-things of life". they did not have to walk to school, fetch water, look for their younger siblings, share clothes, etc. i know that these are things in the past. but i can't help but look-back at the time when our parents were raising us - eight children!
now, they are only three - but this did not make our life any easier. especially when the time came - paying their tuition fees and providing their daily needs. i am hoping that despite the "era-difference" of our times, we have raised them just like what our parents did - strong, loving, responsible, GOD loving, and embracing life to the fullest.
