No matter the stresses of today, parenting is long-term
Despite the success seen today, parenting is long-term
Respect what your instincts say in the now
Though each situation is distinct, parenting is long-term
Accept the turbulent journey
For it reaps excellent rewards, parenting is long-term
Celebrate whenever they achieve
It gives reason to believe and, parenting is long-term
Be open to their requests
It assists on their conquests and, parenting is long-term
Allow them to decide on their own
Through experience, they’ll be shown and, parenting is long-term
There is no set perfection
You can expect temporary deflections because parenting is long-term
Reactions aren’t always sweet
You may have to admit defeat, but parenting is long-term
Sometimes, you must walk away
And admit that it’s just another day but parenting is long-term
Don’t allow your dreams for them to consume
For it’s their responsibility to bloom and parenting is long-term
There are times when you must let them fly free
Open the cage to accept reality because parenting is long-term
Take time for your own needs
Without you, they will proceed because parenting is long-term
Memories made warms everyone’s heart
Always with our souls, never to depart because parenting is long-term
Always a way to contribute
To strengthen attributes because parenting is long-term
She tends to forget
But Astrid encourages no regrets because parenting is long-term
Submitted to dVerse for Open Link Night #232
Astrid's Words 
This was a great reminder. Thank you. I think we live in a society where people all to often are looking for the touchdown. We want to see the success, then relax. We want to work in a career, then retire to enjoy the fruits of our labor. This is product orientation. Process orientation doesn’t seek an endzone. Sometimes, just making it to the end of the day is enough, but we wake up the next and it’s all part of life. Taking the good with the difficult. Not in a hurry to fix anything so we can get to the touchdown of life. Here today. Always here.
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Wise and popping shining rhyming couplets! I love it!
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I think every parent knows this deep in their hearts, but it can be easy to get lost in the roller coaster ride of parenthood… since I don’t have any children, I see this in friends and family… and it mostly turns out well
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This is a cool write Astrid. 🙂 Having raised three wonderful children, and now having the amazing privilege of helping raise our 5-year-old grandson … parenting flies by and soon they are grown and out of the house – and you are melancholy. But such incredibly wonderful, and surprising, and joyful, and some sad even heart breaking tragic memories locked in the treasure chest of your heart… and you wouldn’t trade them for ANYTHING – so enjoy the short time. It is gone before you know it!
…rob from Image & Verse
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I love this repetition. Having grown children, I see so much clearer now what I wish I was then.
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Nice lines: “Celebrate whenever they achieve
It gives reason to believe and, parenting is long-term” And I like the reminder in the whole poem that parenting is long-term.
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