There’s more to being a parent than just being one!
By Stanley Collymore
Being a parent is considerably
much more than biologically
producing a child; so if you
actually don’t know, realize, or really
recognize that definition then surely
honestly you shouldn’t ever be one.
Firstly: recognizing, that the young
individual born to you or entrusted
into your personal care is similarly
an individual too in their own right
although your basic responsibility
to them is to sensibly ensure that
they unquestionably utilize those
essential characteristics of theirs
in an obviously safe and actually
commendable manner becomes
the mainstream of your personal
assignment to them; specifically
so when these charges of yours
are clearly in the developmental
stage obviously of their own life.
However, on them undoubtedly
subsequently becoming adults,
themselves, it’s imperative that
they be sensibly allowed to, as
well as intelligently crucially be
permitted, to be the exemplary
citizens that all discerning and
laudable parents are evidently
both thrilled and also pleased,
relative to the clearly indelibly
noteworthy and very precious
children they earnestly raised.
(C) Stanley V. Collymore
11 May 2023.
Author's Remarks:
This poem is dedicated to those unsung heroes who as parents assisted greatly in making the world a much better place than what it otherwise would have been, even now with all its many manifold problems, had they not magnificently and quite assiduously been the loving, caring and truly remarkable and wonderful parents that you were; and to those still engaged in that task, evidently are.! Thank you all!
