Pay now or pay later is a mantra I have lived by while raising my two girls, Danielle and Leila.
I learned that lesson right after my divorce from Danielle’s father and I put her in a pre school while I went back to school to educate myself in a profession so I could support us.
I went of a pursut of outside gratification though work and monetary ways. It did not take long for me to realize that all my daughter, Danielle wanted was to spend time with me and I her. She did not care if we lived in a cardboard box or had the next greatest toy. What she really wanted was to be loved and appreciated. She wanted to play with me and spend quality intimate time.
I have never worked outside of the home and all of my work has had to first honor my commitment to my girls and giving them the best start in life.
Many people will go off to work in pursuit of providing what they think they should give their kids based upon what they did not have not their true basic needs of food and shelter. I hear over and over the trap that parents have gotten themselves into and they do not know how to get off the treadmill going nowhere fast.
Children and parents are being prescribed antidressants to mask the symtoms many are experiencing. The parents are off working because they have to pay the bills and the kids are doing harmful things bacause they are trying to get attention from their parents any way they can.
What would life look like if you were in Pursuit of Happiness instead of material possessions?
You will pay somehow. You might pay later by having to any of the following ways; by giving money to a bail bonds man to get your child out of jail, pay for drug rehabilitation, sending them from one private school to another trying to buy their education, supporting their out of wedlock teen pregnancy when you would rather retire, or financing their college education only to have them partying your hard earned money away. or Will you pay now with your time and love?
Contentment is a lesson our youth and this time in history is trying to teach us. Can you be happy with a simple life and with simple values?
Love Your Kids and spend time with them are the payments you can do today that does not cost you to work more hours and earn more money. It requires you to be present with your kids and be vunerable to the love they want to give you. Begin by scratching off somethings on your calander and penciling in date time with your kids.
You will love the results of your payment.
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