What do you want to be when you grow up?

     When I was a little girl I was asked this question, and i'm sure most people were asked as well as a child. I remeber I wanted to work with animals(stayed true to my childhood dream:O), but now that i'm older i've been thinking about things we were expected to say. We are thought to go after the money jobs, the attainable jobs, the jobs that support our families. But what about the two most important jobs that really don't get recognized? How many of us answered I want to be a MOM or a DAD? I know that being a parent is suppose to be second nature, but we never really treat parenthood like it's the most important thing. We tell our children to grow up and have jobs. We pay for the on-going schooling to get these jobs, but what about the lesson and the importance of being a parent? We give little girls dolls to take care of, but after a certain age we take those dolls away for more serious things. How many of us teach our sons about taking care of children?

    I'm not saying that we shouldn't teach them the importance of work, but we raise our children, and when they have their own children we say here yah go your a parent, without properly instilling the tools they will need. Most of stumble around, trying to figure out these weird little mini us.(we love them to death, but at first it's like they came from another planet! LOL) But I feel like we should be constantly teaching our children about parenthood, and if they choose not to have children that's o.k But if they choose this awesome job, we have given them the tools to do their very best :
:O)