In this whirlwind of feelings, responsibilities, things to do, races to get everywhere and roller coasters of feelings in which fatherhood consists, sometimes I find myself standing still like a fool watching my children, without more, I simply observe and enjoy to see them playing, sleeping, watching a movie or painting, there they are, they are my children and I could spend the morning watching them.
I think they look like happy children, with no worries other than their own, I think they are lucky, especially when I see other children in other parts of the world. At that time I wonder if my parents thought the same as me, if they also envied my day to day, although, like my children, I also spent the day protesting not to be older. And now I would like to be there, with them, but being a child because I envy his childhood. These are the 11 things that I envy of my children's childhood and that they have to value
Innocence
Innocence is the main fuel of children, its strong point as well as its Achilles heel. There is nothing more wonderful than seeing how a child faces things, everything he sees.
Your freedom
I think there is not a week without my oldest son ending up protesting and crying out to anyone who wants to stop and listen to him, how unfair a child's life is and the amount of rules he has to meet.
For me, making him understand the luck he has of being a child and that he is really free is one of the most complicated things in my current day to day. But how to explain that the mere fact of watching TV instead of playing with his brother's toys or going down to the park is freedom, that not having just responsibilities is freedom?
Your energy
I grow old, something that remind me both of them every time I am forced to slow down with them, but it is true that I am already at an age when batteries do not last as long as I would like (come on, not even half of what I would like)
Your sincerity
If you are looking for sincerity in response to a question, ask a child and let him give his opinion freely. And the good thing about his generation is that those rigid rules we had as children are disappearing. They are no longer those little people without voice or vote, those who could not comment. It is true that much remains to be done and that his eagerness for prominence should be polished a bit, but that will give him time. The important thing is that we sacrifice sincerity for the benefit of a good social relationship, the problem is that there are times when sincerity is necessary unless we run the risk of becoming counterfeit versions of ourselves.
Your way of understanding friendship
It is something that has always made me very funny, I call it "intermittent friendships" because my children leave school saying that their best friend is a little guy and the next day they tell you that they are no longer friends, that he has taken a toy or pushed or whatever it touches that day. Now he is a friend of Menganito and when tomorrow you go to look for him.
But if we analyze the friendships of our children we can see that over time there is a central nucleus, sometimes intermittent but always forming its basic friendship ring.
The way they see and act with others
Their innocence and lack of prejudice make them see others as they are, it is true that this is dangerous, especially with adults; Because we have learned to hide our feelings, those that make us vulnerable or that expose our intentions to others, but not a child, a child is shown as he is. A child only cares what his friend is like with him (if he lets him play, if he shares, if he laughs) and the adventures that live together.
His toys
I have always felt a predilection for certain types of toys, for electronics, for which something must be built and then can interact. I arrived late to them, especially if I consider every time I have to go buy a toy and see myself in that paradise. I know that toys cannot be a substitute for us, that a child's imagination is his best toy, but we are talking about things that make us envious of them, right?
The access to the information
If concepts such as friendship and freedom are difficult to explain to a child, how do you explain how lucky they are to be surrounded by so much information and how easy it is to access it? How to make him understand how lucky he is to be able to read a story written by a young Indonesian that he might not even have known at another time? How to explain that fewer and fewer children die because of diseases because the information is becoming more truthful?
The grandparents
A childhood is not understood without grandparents, without those key pieces in the lives of my children. What to say about them that we haven't already said.
The future
Although many times I would like to get off this world and I am not sure where we are evolving, I believe that the future that awaits my children is tremendously exciting and I hope I can accompany them in it for a long, long time.
Be children
Yes, as a whole. On second thought, what I would like to be always is a child.
