Parents are Human Too.

Today, I want to acknowledge this for YOU and YOUR HEART!

“To the world, you are someone, but to someone, You are the world!” Bill Wilson

May right now as you read this, you look within and notice and acknowledge how fantastic you are! You are doing it every day! Nurturing, problem-solving, caring and supporting everyone’s needs, moving through stages, phases and milestones, coping with the fears (yours and your child’s), making the tough choices, living with tiredness and exhaustion, living with joy and delight, setting and holding the boundaries and expanding your heart to love your kids no matter what!

For me, being a parent is the most critical work in the world and the most humbling job I’ve ever had. My parenting journey has been my most enormous privilege and just when I think I could not possibly love my son anymore… and I do. It hasn’t been smooth sailing, and there are times I wonder what I am doing or what have I done, or if only I had known, and then the parental fear grips like crazy and creeps in for all types of reasons. There is no good or bad; there is only growth, learning, discovering and reflecting. There is no book, workshop, training or degree that can give you the life lessons and self-awareness like parenting can. It’s on the job training to be a better human. When we can tap into that place of acceptance and patience, we can begin to realise that our imperfections are just what we, our family and our child needs.

WE are perfectly imperfect, and it’s high time we talk about it and own it together. Wow, who would have thought when our baby came into the world that this would be our birth into being too!

I want to acknowledge my parenting village!

You know who you are, the crazy late-night calls, the emails, texts and the times you have calmed my irrational fears and given me your undivided attention even when you are busy feeding your kids and climbing the walls. Then the times you have picked up my son from school (or forgotten and we’ve laughed about it together), fed and bathed my child and had my back when the chips are down. I honour you for parenting my child when I was out there following my dreams and helping me to be all I could and wanted to be for the families and educational environments I support. I’m beyond blessed to have close family and friends who have done so much to help me and I continue to lean in and learn from my mistakes, and I’ve learned to allow myself to lean on, those I love and trust to guide and support my family and me.

Today as I have some time to reflect, I could not be more grateful for all the time and love that my parenting village has given my beautiful family and my Kids in Harmony community.

As my heart pulls me towards wanting to celebrate parenthood in whatever capacity that finds you in rightly, I want to honour the Parents whose Parents have passed on, those people in the world without their parents. I send you heartfelt love and acknowledge that your loss is significant you’re your parents legacy and love, lives on and on through you and your children and their children.

And lastly, I want to honour the parents out there doing it on their own and find ways where we can support you more and be that village you dream of for your child. May you know how truly admired, loved, respected and valued you are!

Let’s ALL honour each other for rocking up every day to do what needs-to-be-done to feed and take care of our child as we continue to give it all we’ve got with the best we have on the given day!

Parents are human too.

With admiration to you for all that you are and all that you do!

Yours in Harmony

Kerry