On Parents’ Love for their Children
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The love parents bear for their children is very special.
It really hits me with my four little ones. Sometimes, when I look at them, I have this revelation, this total realization, and I can feel the love flood into me. They’re my children and I love them so much.
So I decided to start a series on the subject of “Loving Our Children”.
I already have dozens of ideas to illustrate all the different dimensions of this love, this very special love.
We’ll be trying to show father/mother differences. And later on we’ll also be dealing with the love of grandparents and of uncles and aunts.
But for starters, it’s hats off to mothers.
So I asked my wife to define her love for our children. What kind of thing is it? In what way is it special for her? Is it different from other forms of love? And she instantly replied, “It’s a heart with an umbilical cord.” What a beautiful image… It says it all, doesn’t it? A nice way to start this series, don’t you think?
Please don’t hesitate to write in with your anecdotes or suggest subjects that we can add to our list.
Pamela Groening says :
I agree with you. My love for my son (now almost 21 years old) is primal and unique. I still get a lurch in my heart when I think of him. I adored him from the first moment I saw him.
However, I was not loved by my mother. I think she is so shut down that she simply did not have that “thing” that parents naturally have for their offspring (even among animals). This affected my sisters and I a great deal and we have struggled so very much to overcome this. When love is not mirrored from day one, it is hard to find your core, your centre. But it is possible.