book review - all joy and no fun

Often time, books always write about how the parenting, parents’ teaching will affect our kids. This is the book that says about how our lives, as parents, are influenced by our kids. All joy and no fun says everything.

In this book, it has a lot of real life cases, and it did happen to either yourself or the people around you. Study them from all different kind of views, physically, psychologically, socially, philosophy and so on.

How do the parents treat their kids? Who is in charge, you or the kids?

Boy Scout or other religious institution plays a role on childhood.

How the history affect the parenting, revolution, modernization, immigrants.

Different races, cultures, ages, combination family, whether it’s a single parent, fostering family or grandparent raise grandkids, it’ll make a tremendous effect on both sides.

Keep that in mind, your kid(s) into this challenge world, not the other way around. So we do have the responsibility on raising them right. Don’t ever compare with any others, just do our best. And never raise your kids alone, especially you are a single parent. Get as many as supporting as you can, whether it’s from the society, social network and so forth.

Raising children is tough job, in a lot of cases, thankless, and yet the most rapturous experience available to adults.

And those kinds of books, I should suggest to not just the parents now or future, even the kids should read it for their parents or themselves.

In the end I’ll say, I feel sorry for someone, if you choose not have a parenthood experience, whether you just do want to have that experience or you chose to absence from the family picture.

Besides marriage, adolescent taken the most pages of this book, I can see teens are the biggest challenge of parenthood. "Parents struggle through their children’s teenage years both because of their changed relationship with their children and because of their changed relationship to themselves."

In this it mentions about Leviticus but I don’t remember why?
The best part of parenthood, joy, it opens our eyes to different fields, broaden our vision.

Joy is not at the present time, when you remembering, recall them back.