Children are blessings from God. They are the reasons why most people marry. Children are the most important people in the life of parents that is why they strive hard to make a living and provide for them their needs. When I was a young woman I always dreamed of marrying and having children of my own. I always looked at the little children and imagined how good it was if they were my own. When I was already a teacher I loved playing with the children. Some of my co-teachers told me that I should put a distance between me and the students but I felt I owe them my happiness.

When I finally had my own child, I was the happiest woman that day when I heard the cry of my boy. Lying there on the bed and pretty exhausted from laboring I managed to smile before I was wheeled to the maternity ward. A mother feels the fulfillment of being a woman once she has her own child. That was exactly how I felt when my baby was finally brought and laid beside me. I couldn't say anything as I watched the face of my child whose eyes were still puffy and closed. Happiness was the only word that described my feelings that moment.

Children are the joy of the family. Once a person has a child, she would feel the fulfillment in her life. I was never happier in my life when I finally had my baby with me at home and I was taking care of him. I then realized that my parents were right when I was a little kid and I saw how my parents reared us to their best. My mother was always there beside us when we got sick. She couldn't sleep and eat and just wanted to take care of us. I remember when I got sick and I was brought to the hospital, I saw tears in my mother's eyes. I wanted very much to get up that moment to tell here that I was already well but I was so weak so the only thing I did was pray to God that I will become well and we can go home. When I saw my mother smiling, I also smiled and that erased all the negative feelings. My parent's happiness was also my happiness.

I was raised from a family where all of us respected, loved and cared for each other. Our parents made us their priorities in life. They were happy when we were happy. They did their best to make us all happy despite the harshness of life in the olden days. I saw how my parents raised us in a way that no parents could equal. They sacrificed too much for us because they wanted all of us to be happy and made sure we were raised in the right way.

Even now that my parents are not anymore there for us because they have passed away many years ago, I could still feel that they are guiding us everyday and teaching us to do what is right for our children. I'm sure they are happy wherever they are just as we are happy that they raised us and taught us how to become good parents.

Our children are what make the family happy and what we do to them is what will determine their kind of life. We are happy when our children are doing fine. We feel content and fulfilled if our children are doing fine and are also content with their life. If they have achieved something that is as good as parents also achieving something and the happiness that we feel is the happiness also of our children.

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