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'Sometimes you just don't really know the right words to say' Children's surprising responses to how they feel about their parents revealed
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On a daily basis, most parents internally question whether they are doing good for their children -- and most of the time, they feel they come short from what the child needs and of their own expectations. The latest video from Minute Maid presents the reality that parents mean the most to their children. The parents are actually doing good.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
4/30/2015 (1 decade ago)
Published in Marriage & Family
Keywords: Parents, Parenting, Children, Relationship, Doing Good, Doubts, Words
MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The video starts with a question, "How do you think you're doing?" They are all in doubts; the parents express they really don't know if they are doing "it" right.
"I do feel like... I let them down sometimes," said one mother who admitted that she's always left with little quality time for her children.
"I didn't know how hard work it was, until I actually had to do it," said a father on doing well as a parent. With all the things they have to juggle attached to their roles, another mother said that she sometimes doesn't know what is right and wrong that "you start to second guess yourself."
Parenting can be worrisome, and the lack of better communication between parent and child adds to the doubts.
When their kids were asked "what they think," their responses were overwhelmingly good. They think their parents are not aware of how good they are because, as one daughter put it, "you just really don't know the right words to say."
Maybe, there really are no words powerful enough to describe what their parents mean to them.
No matter how the world is, these children will always remember the words of wisdom and memories shared that made them feel better and cause them to aim for better.
"I couldn't have a better mom," one child said through her letter, making her mother cry.
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