I equate teaching and “thinking” that you can teach to a veteran mother and a newly pregnant woman. From the outside looking in, it doesn’t look that bad. In fact, it may even look easy. However, the veteran teacher and/or mother knows that a lot of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears went into that lesson to make it look easy. Just believe me when I say that it is by no means easy.
It’s the same way with a mother. Being a mother is not one of the easiest jobs in the world. Yet some people manage to raise very successful children while making it look easy. The parents may make it look easy, but it is definitely not an easy job to raise children.
A newly pregnant woman may look at a harried mother of many with who has lost all patience with her children after a very trying day with disgust and vow never to be “that type” of mother. Until a few years and a couple of kids later.
She didn’t mean to be judgmental. How could she have known the full magnitude and the sheer amount of work that was required to be a successful mother or teacher? Now that she is the one with experience, she will not be so quick to judge anyone who has finally lost patience with an unruly child after wrestling with them all day.
Neither one of these jobs are easy. Neither one of these jobs is for the faint of heart. To even consider doing either one of these takes guts, a tremendous amount of courage, and/or stupidity. Why would anyone want to enter into seemingless thankless jobs like parenting and teaching?
Why? Because they are extremely rewarding. Of course they are going to have their ups and downs, everything does. However the good outweighs the bad. ‘Cause all of my good days outweigh my bad days. And IIIIIIIIIIII I won’t complain.
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