International Parenting Reminds Us That Parents The World Over Love Their Children And Share The Same Hopes And Dreams For Their Children’s Futures As We Do For Ours
The above quote by Frederick Buechner illustrates the significance we as parents now have on the world at large. International Parenting reminds us all that parents are similar the world over. Parents the world over love their children and want to be the best of parents for them, and for their children to live in a safe and peaceful earth. In our own ways we are all now participating in International Parenting since when we touch our children’s lives for good, when we help them to want to be the best and kindest and most honest people they can be through our loving and consistent parenting efforts, then our touch impacts for good not only our children, but they in turn will impact others in the community and in the larger world for good. Who can really tell or know how far reaching our ultimate impact for good will be through our International Parenting efforts we are engage in on a very local and personal level with the children we love, protect, and nurture in our own homes, on a daily basis? Our languages and parenting styles may differ, but we as parents are truly engaged in a common cause that WILL have a global impact on us all, and even more so as time marches on. This has never been more true than at the present time when global communication via the internet and web sites such as this one link the peoples of the world in ways we could never have imagined just 15 years ago. The age of true internet communication for the masses has only existed since 1995, so we are all parenting in a world much more connected and open than ever before seen in the history of the world.
International Parenting is not some distant dream but is a present day reality. This Website’s Vision is to educate, motivate and empower parents the world over to creatively, joyfully and effectively parent by example the children we love for the benefit of us all. International Parenting is to open your minds to the realization that now more than ever, what we do in our own backyards and with our own children will very likely be felt on a global level in some way and in the very near future. It is a pleasure and deep satisfaction for us to inform our readers that parents from over 123 different nations from around the world have read, and continue to read this Preteen Thru Teenage Parenting Action Guide. Of course this website covers parenting topics from infancy to legal adult status, and that is because you can never start too early being a great parent to your children, and once a parent ALWAYS a parent. International Parenting is on display with this partial list of countries whose parents frequent and benefit from this Website: 1. American Samoa As mentioned above, our website visitors come from over 123 countries around the world. The general consensus is that there are 195 countries in the world today, so this website reaches parents in approximately 63% of the world's countries. You are in very good company here. The need for quality parenting truly knows no boundaries. If you are reading this from a country that is not yet represented in the list above, please Contact Us and let us know what country you are from, and we will gladly add your country to the list. There is a song by the artist Sting (formerly from the band ‘The Police’, but I digress) whose general message is that for the sake of the safety of the peoples of the world, it is hoped that the Russians also love their children. Though the song is rhetorical, I for one want to affirm the obvious and absolute and eternal truth that Yes the Russians love their children, as do the Germans and the Chinese and the Americans and as do all peoples the world over. That is the point of this International Parenting page. To affirm that we parents ALL love our children, want the best for them and for the future of the world we all live in, and by being the best parents we can be for our OWN children we are doing a very real and vital service for the betterment of the world as a whole, which is getting more connected and more interdependent every day of every year. Let me leave you with a living lesson about how service to others, about how giving as much as we get is the fastest and best way to help others while finding lasting joy and happiness for ourselves. This story applies to parenting, International Parenting, to life in general, and to people universally. The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are both fed by the same pure waters of the River Jordan, but both of these seas are remarkably different. While the Sea of Galilee is clean and fresh, enjoying an abundance of fish and plants and people living within its reaches, the Dead Sea by contrast is salty, smelly, and inhospitable. The difference is that the Sea of Galilee not only takes from the River Jordan but it also gives back freely from what it has taken, and thus it is alive and pleasant. The Dead Sea in contrast is a selfish sea, only taking the fresh water from the River Jordan and never giving anything in return. We as parents and as people need to share with others of the good things we receive or we can never be fully alive, abundant, and happy. If all we do is take, take, take in this life, then we are being selfish and we will end up dying inside until our lives are just like the Dead Sea, always taking and never giving; hurting and killing ourselves in the process. Besides, this selfishness will be a bad example to your children, who seeing how you live will surely choose to follow in your ways. As a worthy ending to this International Parenting page I would LOVE to have you read lots and lots of true parenting stories from parents from all over the world that will show how unique, and yet how similar, parenting experiences are the world over. Yet parents from only four countries, the USA, Argentina, India and Wales (UK), have shared stories on the Parenting Forums provided for our readership so far. As a small but significant act of parenting service, please take a moment and go to the Parenting Forums and share a parenting story with the world at this time. Not every parent who reads this will leave a story, but as we parents constantly tell our children, so I say to you now; “You are not responsible for everyone. You are only responsible for YOU.” If only YOU go to the Parenting Forums and leave a short parenting story for the rest of us to enjoy, then YOU have done your part, and that is all anyone can ask of you. You will have given back of the much you have received here, and will have been of true International Parenting service to other parents around the world. You will also feel of the joy that comes from unselfish service to others. If your English is not very good, that’s ok. Go to the Forums and type your story anyways and I will make it right before posting it for others to read. Then go and hug your children and tell them how much you love them. International Parenting, after all, is what our world is made of. There is a lot more parenting wisdom to share. Here is another International Parenting thought: Our modern world has made our parenting skills and contributions valuable not only to our own children and families, but to all of us in the wider world who will live in a better world because of the quality children you are helping to raise on a daily basis at any time, for any reason, over and over again. International Parenting is to remember and acknowledge that parents the world over love their children and would love for their children to know of this love, to feel of this love, and to live in a world made better and safer for all of us because of this love.
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