kids

So every day with kids brings new adventures. One day they are just little babies lying on a blanket, and the next day they are climbing up your bookshelves like little monkeys. And then when you blink, they are engaged to be married. When you have kids really young, you take a lot of things for granted. You just assume that your kids will do what they should. That they will meet their milestones and what not.
As you get older, you realize that you can't leave quite so much to chance. You watch. You hover. You worry. You compare. You research. And the more you know, the more you worry.
Before the internet, you could only research so much. You couldn't spend all day at the library. Now, you can stay up all night looking up every little symptom. Before the internet, you just took the prescription from the doctor and took him at his word. Now we look up every last thing and end up with even more to worry about.
Kids are great and I would recommend to everyone that you should have at least a couple. But it's hard. And you will make mistakes. And you can't just erase them like on a test. This is real life. And they remember. You may not think they do, but they remember everything. And not necessarily the same way that you remember things either. So just keep in mind, it will all come back at you someday. They grow up and move away, but they are still your kids. And what you do shapes them. For good or bad, it does. And as parents, we need to remember that more.