Parent appreciation

When you become a parent your idea of time changes. Before parenting you can measure results in the immediate future. As a parent, when you do something for your child your expectation moves to years. There is no way that a child can understand the sacrifices made, until they have to make the same sacrifices.

As a parent then, your timetable moves ahead in time to the point where your child will experience pouring out their resources for the good of their child, or someone else. At that time, it is hoped that the realization and the gratitude will be there for the sacrifices made for them.

My thinking now is "ten years or so down the road, maybe they will be thankful I did this for them today".