I believe every good parent with foresight knows and would do what is best for their kids; whether we like it or not as their children, they will always find a way to make sure we do the right things.
Even when it's hard for them and they have to make a tough decision. This is why sometimes we don't appreciate where they are coming from; we complain or even resent them, wishing they would do things our way, but then, what do kids know? Eat, play, sleep, and repeat lol.
We鈥檇 like you to share something your parents or guardians used to ask you to do that you thought was punishment until you grew up and realized they were rather helping you.
When I was a kid, my parents were loving, caring, and patient. I, particularly, was Daddy's little perfect Princess馃槉, but that doesn't mean they didn't discipline us. One glance from my dad alone is enough for me to be well-behaved and fall in line.
My parents weren't harsh, but I always listened and followed their instructions, as I do not like being scolded. I was the definition of an obedient child; I still am lol 馃槀.
The first thing I could remember they did that I did not appreciate at the outset was sending me to school. Okay, I know you are probably rolling your eyes right now, but here is the thing.
I was six years old, an age they believed I was mature and strong enough to be able to trek for one and a half hours to the village where the next available school is located. There was no school in the village where I grew up, so we had to trek a long distance every Sunday, stay with a great friend of my parents in that village, and then come back after closing hours on Friday.
This is why I resent going to school at the age of six. Aside from having to leave my family every school day and only stay together on the weekends, my parents were the only ones sending their kids to school, as at that time, others claimed they didn't have the financial means to send their kids to school, a reason I now know was not genuine enough.
If they were as determined as my parents were back then, they would have been able to afford sending their kids to school. What this means is that I had to leave my close friends in my village behind, and while they stayed back and played around all week, I had to do so much trekking every week to school. I do not like this a bit.
Why do I have to be suffering so much trekking every week on a lonely path to school while my friends stay back and enjoy themselves? I wished to be like them, playing around all week and never having to be separated from my parents. Back then, weekends and school holidays were my favorite days; that was when I got to reunite with my parents and friends after a long school week.
Even though I hated it, I had no choice but to keep going back to school every school day. But then, it didn't take long for these same friends to start wishing they had my type of parents; they wanted to start schooling just like I was doing. That was when I began to realize that my parents sending my brothers and me to school in the next village was the best thing they could have ever done for us.
With time I began to endure the hardship of trekking every week, because I knew it wouldn't last forever. I began to appreciate my parents' decision as I realized that it was the best thing for them to do, even though sometimes I would catch my mom with teary eyes when the weekends were over and she had to part from us.
If not for them, I wouldn't have the education that I have and am very proud of today. And even if I made it out of that tiny village, I wouldn't have come this far in my life.
These days, when I look back, I simply smile and pray that God continues to keep my parents healthy for as long as possible.
Over to you guys: what are those things you resent your parents for making you do but later learned to appreciate their decisions? Let me read it in the comment section. And you can simply join the HiveGhana contest
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