1387 INTRO TO MY INEXPERIENCED ADVENTURES INTO PARENTING Part 21

2015
And now, having introduced myself and Will to you as young marrieds, the time feels ripe to write my retrospective perspective of raising siblings, who (unlike Cain and Abel), will not only survive childhood battles but actually learned to develop into each other's supportive friends once leadership becomes aware of the importance of guiding each child to minimize sibling rivalry by depositing the power of knowledge into memory banks (first mine, then theirs), in hopes of creating a positively focused emotional environment where all ages and both genders grow to embrace the value of mutual respect, resulting in brotherhood thriving rather than merely surviving—most especially when heated moments, due to conflict, indicate need to take time out to release anxiety or frustration (both of which interfere with mental acuity) so that, upon regrouping, everyone has cooled down, suggesting that during brainstorming sessions in which needs are considered, all around, problem solvers have the mental clarity necessary to come up with such logical solutions as to resolve conflicts with the spirit of cooperation intact, and when cooperation is the name of the game, resentful and rebellious attitudes have little reason to shape up ...  Whew!

Quite a challenge for leadership to guide everyone in the family to pull off attitudes of cooperation with consistency, right?  In fact, you can believe me when I say that figuring out how to inspire cooperative attitudes to develop in all three of my children by role-modeling and coaching each one to effectively calm their own emotional reactions before mayhem exploded may feel nearly impossible to achieve unless leadership quests toward strings of insight into both sides of human nature, and here's why that quest worked for me:  As strings of insight continue to link together (even now), trains of thought emerge from my mind that offer creativity endless chances to strengthen an emotional environment in which the attitudes of parents and children are trained (yes, trained) to focus on Win-Win ...

You see,  in homes where win-win wins out, much more often than not, adults and their offspring learn to practice (mutually respectful) methods of conflict resolution just as championship teams, who win rings, hone their personal skills while practicing on the playing field with their teammates, day after day—and now, rather than pontificating, any longer, let's see what happens when Adam and Eve ... Oops, I mean Annie and Will feel the time is ripe to chomp into that apple, which has nourished their mutual hunger to love and nurture a child of their own ...

BTW ... If you wonder which employees had opened the supermarket and movie theater while the blizzard of '67 was still paralyzing the Midwest—retrospectively, so do I.  My guess is that these employees must have been those entrusted with keys, who'd lived within walking distance (as unlikely as that coincidence might seem).  Suffice to say that life proves stranger than fiction, repeatedly ... and that's a good thing, because that which challenges our curiosity saves mental acuity from drowning in routine just as passion, stirring our hearts to quicken, exercises our spirits' need to soar  ...