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Weeds and Blooms
The Similarities Between Gardening and Parenting
By Amy Dingmann
"I have found you can listen to what people have to say and weigh it in your mind, but in the end you need to do what you think is best for your child," Johnson says. "And what's best for them may be much different than someone else. Don't worry about what you look like or what others think. In the end, none of that matters."
It seems as though we're always waiting as parents. We wait to conceive and deliver, we wait for our children to roll over, sit up, talk, walk, go to school, get their license, come home from a date, graduate, move out, not to mention waiting in the doctor's office, sports practices, dance recitals – waiting is part of the parenting game.
"Parenting is an all-consuming job!" Wilhelm says. "When you finally resign yourself to that fact, you can make it fun."
"No matter how tough the day has been, I always melt when I walk into their bedroom at night and hear that quiet breathing and watch them in their most innocent, precious state," Johnson says. "It reminds me why I do what I do."
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