For a new parent, there are so many things to get wrong. You can look it all up and worry a bit more about whether you're failing in some way. So there's nothing quite like a sentient, sane human being, whose seen this all before, saying "you're doing fine" to put your mind at rest. Or looking around at the rough and tumble, joyous nature of a household filled with children and young adults to make you realise that, in the end, none of the things you worry about really matter and that bringing up children is easiest when it is a shared, convivial affair.
Finding Sue to look after our kids boy and a girl, while we both work nearly
30 miles away was one of the best things that ever happened to us. We don’t have to worry about them for one minute during the day even when they are at school and that’s priceless to us. Sue does it all shes got authority to decide in our absence. If they not reading a book with her, they playing with their best friend (another sweet-natured toddler) or one of the other kids who go there after school. And if they’re not about, they spend his time following her husband around the house – a man who is equally gifted with kids, and loved by all of them.
It’s no small thing to trust someone with the most precious thing you have, and that someone becomes one of the most important people in your life. The women who give of themselves so generously to help nurture our children in safety, security and comfort are rare and beautiful souls.
Thanks you all Steve, Sue, Sara, and Shelly for your hard work to the local children.