Children + Good Parents = Happiness

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Children + Good Parents = Happiness A child’s emotional state is a clean slate at birth. The people a child comes in contact with can determine feelings of security and happiness. Influences from friends, teachers, relatives and especially parents develop a child’s personality. Parents are responsible for keeping their offspring in a happy, loving and safe environment. This will secure their good attitudes and emotional health as an adult. As with all parents, my child's happiness depends on my attitude. There is an emotional richness that comes from being together, and teaching my kids. This cannot be matched. As my children grow, I learn that being a parent and not a playmate is the hardest task for me. My children are the coolest people I know. I do my best to not act like a child, but being a kid with them is so much fun. When I act like a child, I am seen as a child, rather than a parent by my children. When I am at my lowest of moods, playing with my son, Austin, brings me back to a childlike demeanor. Austin and I are very physical together, we love to wrestle. As he gets bigger it is much harder to handle him when he gets over excited. The cycle of life provides happiness over and over again. I get to see the world through the eyes of my children and that is a sight to behold. When I am with my child is doesn’t matter what I say or do, they will be happy as long as we are together. Teaching our children how to be happy can be a difficult task when a parent has so many other things to concentrate on. Happiness is to learning to accept your own faults. As long as your child knows how to accept themselves, others will accept them. As long as they are able to love and know how to love, they will receive love back tenfold. A hard task is being able to stop my day and play with my children. This is a necessity to my children’s happiness. Playing doesn't
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