Precious Gifts

    Children are so precious. They are so helpless and they depend on us to take care of them wether we are competent or not. Henna comes home from work quite often with things to tell me about patients he saw throughout the day. Today he came home telling me about a little boy and his parents and it really hit home for me. Now this little boy is about 4 months old and was admitted to Primary Children's because he is "failure to thrive". He was in this category because he supposedly wouldn't eat. Now what had hit home to me was what Henna had to say about his parents. His parents were teenagers and didn't seem very stressed that their son was in the hospital. When doctors or nurses would come in to educate them they would back with a glaze over their eyes and show no interest in making their son's situation better. They would be sitting in the room playing and tickling each other rather than hold their son. While they were staying in the hospital the parents of this little boy were smoking weed in the hospital bathroom instead of tending to their child. Luckily this little boy did not end up going home with his parents but taken to child protective services. I couldn't help but cry when Henna was telling me all of this. Why do children come to this earth into the care of parents that aren't competent? Its not fair.

    I began to think of my own children and reflect on if I am providing enough for them. Am I meeting their needs? Am I patient with them? Am I teaching them to be good people? I hope so and if not I know that I am working towards it. They are special to me and deserve the best of everything. I just dont understand how parents dont change their ways after witnessing these children and the light that they have. A light that helps you realize what is important and that is helping maintain that light and teaching them how to share it. But addictions will always win over your loved ones including your children no matter how much you say you love them. Your addictions will hurt them without you realizing. Children need their parents for everything and if we aren't the ones helping they will find it somewhere else outside of your home. 

    Being a parent is a blessing and I hope you dont look at it in any other way. We are given these precious little souls and how we react wether they were planned or not is all on us. It is a shame that some dont react at all and live the same they did before they had children and made no changes to better the environment that they are living in. Being a parent is a blessing because our children are given to us to help us become better and hope that every one of us is  striving to progress and not stay at a stand still, they deserve better then that. 

The Brown Girl