What is the hardest thing you have had to do as a parent?

Question

So far, i have had it pretty easy!

just wondering what are the hardest things u have had to do as a parent?

Answer 1

Waving goodbye when my ex (who is their natural mum) met a new partner and decided that three mummies was one mummy too many. I did what was best for them and worst for me. I still miss them terribly but fighting for them would have created so many problems in what would otherwise be a stable loving home that I had to let them go. I tell them I love them before I go to sleep though, you never know, there might be a 'love delivering fairy', (cousin of the tooth fairy perhaps?).

Answer 2

I was blessed having it easy too.The only thing that was hard for me is when my son was 7.He tried to throw a temper tantum in the store when I told him he couldn't have a toy.It was a supermarket and I had put juice and a treat for him in the cart.I told him by the time I went to pay for the things he better be behind me or I was leaving without him.Well he didn't follow me so I didn't get him his juice and treat. I got into the car and acting like I was leaving.I saw him fly out the door crying and screaming mama. I picked him up and went home.The hardest thing was not going back to the store and getting him his juice and treat.He cried and said he was stupid cuz he lost his juice and treats too. The lessons I have taught him were the hardest on me. Oh he is 18 now and working during the day and college at night.

Answer 3

At 2 months - leaving her w/ my mom to go to the movies was the hardest thing ever.

At a year, trying to respond to where's daddy? was the hardest thing ever (we split up, he took off to another state.)

At 3 1/2, dropping her off the first day of preschool was the hardest thing ever. I cried all the way to work, and paniced everytime the phone rang.

At 5, watching her little heart break as I told her our cat had gone to heaven while she was at school was the hardest thing ever.

At 6, taking her to get blood work done at the lab, with her crying and screaming "Mommy, I don't want to do this, please make her stop!" was the hardest thing ever. It makes my eyes well up even to type that now, lol.

I'm sure I'm in for much more. Each time I thought it was the worst thing ever, and each time I got through it. I don't know how, but we did. :) And you will, too.

Answer 4

I have 2. First, having to wave bye to my 5 year old and 4 year old (on her birthday) while going into surgery for them to remove my lung at 26 years old. I had a 25% chance of making it and knew they probably would not remember me if I didn't. Thank God , I did. Second, sitting by watching as the police told my 16 year old daughter that her boyfriend had shot and killed himself the night before after they had an argument. You prepare for broken hearts, upsets, losses, etc., but you never imagine this. Parenthood is the hardest, scariest, most rewarding thing in the world. I believe this is why we are here. So, enjoy it and remember to keep a journal daily, or even just whenever. You'll be surprised at all of the cute, funny, embarassing things they do and say while growing up, and one day, it will be like gold to you! Good Luck!

Answer 5

The hardest thing I had to do was waiting for three weeks to find out if my baby was going to be normal. I tested positive for Trisomy 18 on the 18 week blood test and for a month I thought of abortion and suicide. I did not eat or sleep until I went to the hospital and had an IV. I cried until the amniocentesis came back.

Answer 6

The hardest time for me as a parent have been medical problems with my kids. When my oldest daughter was 3, she fell, hit her head and fractured her skull. Watching her in the ICU and not being able to do anything but wait it out and pray she would get better was terrible. When my oldest son was 3, we were told he needed eye surgery. That was a difficult decision to make. I wasn't ready to put him through surgery. We ended up waiting until he was 6 and he made the decision with us. But really that's pretty easy compared to some.

I have friend who was told with her first that he would have Down Syndrome. He turned out perfectly fine. Her second was a perfectly healthy pregnancy, but after he was born, he was diagnosed with liver cancer. Her third perfectly healthy pregnancy ended up with a stillbirth and her fourth came over a month early and had to stay in the PICU for a while. Given that, I'd take a skull fracture and eye surgery any day.

Answer 7

i'm 17 and consistently been very grown up for my age. i've got the only stable place sort and properly could desire to take of my sisters lots one is 13. She's the toughest element interior the whole worldwide. She does not come living house from college she would be waiting to stay out until finally after dark and that's risky exceptionally because of the fact that we live in a coarse city. She steals fags from my mothers boyfriend. She steals money. She'll take issues from my room and my sisters. She'll thieve from my mom. I easily have a newborn toddler sister aswell and with the 13 years olds hormones and dealing with puberty, she's consistently moody, slamming doorways, no longer assisting out interior the kinfolk, making issues confusing. She won't visit sleep at night in simple terms bangs round her room. the very undeniable fact that she thinks she knows of lots and that's she thinks she's a grown woman and he or she's uncontrolled is the toughest element a pair of teenybopper.

Answer 8

The hardest thing I have ever heard a parent has had to do happened to somebody in a concentration camp during the holocaust.
A mother was asked which of her two children should be executed. If she didn't pick, then they both would be.

Being a father of two, the very thought of this makes me cry.

Answer 9

My son was born with a medical condition Exomphalos major.The hardest thing has been watching him when he's ill, he's only two and has already had more than ten operations and spent time in intensive care, every time I have to sign consent for surgery it breaks my heart - but everyday I love and appreciate him more.

Answer 10

just being a parent is hard it also has loads of funny moments would'nt change any of it, think the hardest was when my daughter was being bullied for being over wieght when she was little and she used to come home sobbing in my arms, i had 2 go in and talk to the headmaster (he was a bit of a muppet so i had to go in a few times) it took 5 months before it got sorted funny thing is shes so slim now and eats like a pig lol

Answer 11

Potty training wasn't much fun. Other than that, though, the hardest thing I'm facing right now is my son going to Jr. High next year. That is freaking me out!