The more I live, the more I realize what a difficult task is the parenting task, and how difficult it is to realize it when we are young and decide to have children. When I was at New York Hospital for the birth of my son, I used to listen to the nurses complain about the mother with whom I shared the room. According to them, this new mother did not provide her newborn with the usual necessary care. At that time, I thought it was just a matter of showing happiness to the newborn; today I know that this woman’s baby did not enjoy the bliss destined for my son. That is how it all begins. Many of us read articles about crimes carried out by young people without realizing that no one comes into this world with criminal tendencies. If we go deeper, we will understand that it is us parents who are responsible for the crimes. Why? For not having being the good teachers all children deserve to have. I do not mean by this that the parents of delinquent children also have a delinquent instinct; I'm just saying that they didn't have the ability to realize that raising another human being involves a lot of patience, dedication, and above all, the understanding that a small being breaks easily. A spiteful look, a hurtful word, and above all never praising what they have done is the weapon that crumbles their self-esteem; that is how they stop loving themselves and forget their wish to be the best. Then, when they reach adolescence, it will be too late to rebuild what has been destroyed.
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