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This is What It Costs

Jan 2, 2024

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Explore the costs and transformative power of parenting, including financial and emotional sacrifices. Learn about the impact on sleep, time, and well-being. Discover the role of therapy in navigating these challenges.

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Parenting is a transformative process that demands sleep, energy, patience, and time, but ultimately makes us real as parents and individuals.

Combining therapy and stoicism can help parents navigate challenges, understand themselves better, and apply practical strategies effectively.

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The Cost and Toll of Parenting

Parenting comes at a significant cost, not only financially, but also emotionally and physically. It demands our sleep, energy, patience, and time. The love and energy of children shape and transform us over the years, often wearing us down and leaving us exhausted. However, despite the toll it takes, parenting is a wonderful and transformative process that makes us real as parents and as individuals.

The Costs and Transformative Power of Parenting

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We’ve been quoting recently from the old children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, about a toy that’s so loved by a young boy that it becomes real. This is a great metaphor for parenting in a way. Because that’s what’s happening to us. We made a decision to have kids many years ago and then for years that decision works on us, shaping, changing, transforming us. No part of that is more powerful than the love and energy of our children—whose joy, whose innocence, whose pain, whose growth is working on us always…even as it takes so much out of us.

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