Parenting Memories

Parenting Memories

While you are creating parenting memories, you are passing on lessons to your own children. What you do daily as a parent, sends a message to your children. Parenting includes what you do and don’t do. Instead of letting your children grow up and complain about what their parents did wrong, create parenting memories that are healthy, positive, and worth remembering.

Do something as parents that can never be purchased in a store. What do you remember about your own parents growing up? How would you describe your parent? Leave a legacy in which your children really do want to honor you as the parents. You do not need a lot of money, or the latest gadgets, but instead create parenting memories worth enjoying together and preserving.

What you do as parents will most likely be what your own children will do when they become parents themselves. Your parents are more than someone’s mother or father. There are many different roles that your parents play. Many times we do not realize what all our parents do for us, until we are older and observe or appreciate more in life.

We are all human and make mistakes, especially when we are tired. What you do in stressful, frustrated, and even happy moments teaches our children about how to parent. Teach your own children how to give grace and forgiveness to yourself and others during difficult decisions and challenging situations while parenting. These lessons are invaluable as your children watch how you handle these times during your parenting memories.

The repetitive and monotonous routines as parents can really get to you. However, every day is a blessing and a time to create a small or large memory with your children. Maybe you are using finger paints, and say one sentence that your child remembers for the rest of their lives. The daily moments of errands and tasks is filled with chances to show the right attitude and how to remind yourself that you are building something greater than the moment. You are building children of great character and leaving a legacy.

One creative way to leave a legacy, keep stories alive, and pass on important virtues and values, is to create a baby time capsule with your child. Your baby will one day grow up to be an adult and influence the world around them, just like you. For their first two years of life, save mementos, memorabilia, or other sentimental items that cannot fit in a scrapbook. Put these important keepsakes in the baby time capsule.

Then, have family and friends hand write a “message to the future” letter making fun predictions about what their life will be like in the future when the time capsule is opened or they graduate from high-school, for example. Finally, on a date of your choosing, in the future, have your child open the time capsule and you can all reminisce about what life was like when your baby was born. What messages of hope, inspiration, stories, and parenting memories did you leave your child in their time capsule? How will your parenting memories and advice help your child be a better parent themselves when they have children? It is a heartfelt, enduring, and unique gift that will be treasured forever. This is how you keep parenting memories alive.

What is one lesson your parents taught you, that you passed on to your own children as a memory? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie