by Mike Hazelwood

Created on: December 04, 2008

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

I have often heard that our children will tend to show reflections of our own personality. This being said, our children could have our bad attributes and often times our children will have our good attributes that each of us prize and hold dearly. Levi, my oldest son, is eight years old. I am so amazed by the how much my son is like me, and I say this in reflective way seeing the good points of my personality and even the bad points.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Evelyn Waugh

I hear the stories of my son getting into trouble for talking or goofing off in school, and I often see this glimmer of myself living through his personality. I hear the stories of him being the class clown and my mind is transported back to the time when I was growing up, and how much of a challenge I must have been to my own parents and teachers. Often honed from children who are so similar to us we often learn to shine in our parenting skills.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

When these challenging times are so imminent in my life, I remember the patience my parents had with me growing up. I do believe that we live through our children. The advice and patience our parents had with us growing up is the seeds that our planted in us for our future parenting endeavors. This advice helps us in watering and growing our parenting skills in the future.

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.

Sindoni Greuenburg

Hope is planted.

Others feelings are considered.

Moms are rated supreme.

Every child is loved!

Mike Hazelwood

For all of those who have blessed by a child who is just like you I challenge each one of you to reach out with patience and love. Even though I have seen some of my negative attributes in my son, I also see the good attributes. The good almost always outweigh the bad.

My son is extremely intelligent, funny, handsome, witty and amazing. Kids are a blessing from God, and I count it a blessing to share my life with a son who is so much like me even though the similarities seem quite scary at times.

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