A Parent of Patience?

Being a stay-at-home parent is an everyday challenge and the old adage, 'patience is a virtue' is so true. And some days it is worth more than gold and scarcer than common sense in the Democratic party.

I am only human and thus not perfect. And I am very far from it at that.

At the beginning when my wife and I were starting our family, tried to be patient and I think I did an OK job at it. As my sons got older and walking, my patience was rather scarce and continued to be until recently. I am sure that my children have experienced my shortness on more occasions that they would have liked. But that was due in part to not just the lack of patience, but the over abundance of frustration as well. This frustration came from other things that were going on in my life at the time. Again, I am only human and I tried my best to keep my frustrations separate from my kids, but I was not always successful.

Lately, I have been trying to get back to the basics. My plan for this summer is to go through the house and garage and get rid of everything that I can that is not needed. I realize there are some things that we want to keep that are not necessary, but for what ever reason want to keep. But I want to get rid of everything else.

I think that we have too many things in our lives whether they be physical or mental that prevent us from being happy and can lead to frustrations and a scarcity of patience. And impatience, combined with the frustration lead to stress. And stress can eventually kill you.

I read a report that stay-at-home dads have a shorter life span and a higher chance of heart disease than their female counter part.

Life is already complicated and difficult enough without all the crap that we add to it.

I would say that is my two cents worth, but I would be greatly exaggerating the value of what I have just written.