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This article is from the Good Things About
Having Kids FAQ, by Benjamin V.C. Collins,
collins@campus.mlc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
72 Good Having Kids Answer
it is 1000 times easier that I thought it would be and I get
to go to the beach in the middle of the week.
I have 2 kids and love them dearly. But life is not without its problems.
My oldest daughter is hearing-impaired. Marianne has just turned 6 and
leads the same kind of life as any other 6-year-old does. But her life also
consists of therapy (she is bilingual- speech and sign), doctors,
audiologists and a lot of extra work with her mother and me. She's taught
me a lot. Her ability to remain calm in the face of all these things shows
how adaptable kids are. They are able to accept the ups and downs of
everyday life without getting into a lot of angst over "Why me?" and all
that. With apologies to the shoe company, she 'just does it'.
If we all had the same view of life that most kids have, we'd be a lot
better off. We could laugh more (a child's uninhibited laughter is one of
life's great joys), hate less, and who knows? I might even be able to hit
the curveball.
Doug Stephens
dstephen@tse.com
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