Now that I am a grandmother, I see just how short a time it is. As a young mother buried under piles of diapers and baby bottles, waking up at all hours for nocturnal feedings, I didn't see how fleeting the time was. When I was carpooling kids to school halfway across Los Angeles on congested freeways while juggling career and single-parenting, I had no clue how quickly .the years would pass. Yet I did have a sense that these were precious times and that parenting was to be appreciated for the incomparable lessons and opportunities it presented. In that, I have never been disappointed.
Children are incredible teachers.
That is not to say that we are not our children's teachers, too. It just means that it's a two-way street. We learn from them as they learn from us. Soon we find ourselves learning what parenting means to us . What we value.