My Parenting Story
Welcome to MomThought. I’m Joan Romero at MomThought.com. Today’s Momthought is My Parenting Story.
My parenting story began when Eden, my first child, was six months old. Ruben and I got a job working as weekend House Parents at a private school. It was a house full of 12 elementary school girls. We took care of them every other weekend.
The school they attended was a very strict. Ruben and I did the best we could to provide consistency by doing all we were told.
After one year, we moved to another home that had 10 middle school boys. We were working there when I gave birth to Enoch, our second child. The structure of the home was similar to the first.
We did what we could to please the regular house parents. To aid us in our job, we started to read a lot on parenting and, the more we read, the less we liked working under such strict and unrealistic circumstances.
It was unhealthy for the kids and began to be unhealthy for us as well. The regular house parents wanted us to be consistent with their unnaturally strict ways but then we were trying to be something that we were not.
And kids are smart. They know you are lying to them when you try to act in a “role” that is not your own. In the end, we decided that it wasn’t good for us to stay in an unhealthy environment.
So we left the job, but took with us all that we had learned. And we are grateful for the experience.
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Thank you,
Joan Romero
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