“Your days of eating out are over”, “Save up on your sleep!” are among the things said to us before and after the birth of our boy. To varying degrees, that’s true but it isn’t the whole truth about welcoming a newborn into the world. And it’s important to talk fully about the whole experience because how people talk about parenthood are life and death, literally.
How?
Consider this: you never have to convince someone to keep the money from a lottery winning. But sometimes, you have to convince someone to keep their child in the case of a pregnancy. Why is that?
Perhaps it’s because many talk of pregnancy and babies only in the negative. Sleepless times, sacrifice, pees, poos, possits and crying.
It’s all that, but it isn’t all that. What about the privileges and the joys which come with them?
Let’s complete the thought. Let’s complete the sentence by not parking the full stop after the cliché warnings but continuing on to speak of the positives.
Life and death is the tongue. Let’s use our’s wisely.
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