On Calibrating The Moral Compass
We're so relieved that gestation is a time-consuming process, it gives us time to talk about parenting. One of the most important things to discuss is where we stand when we stand? We'll call it calibrating one's moral compass.
In a world full of emotions and influences we know how important it is to set a standard by which our child will live inside our own home, inside our little world that we have the incredible power to create ourselves. When we both were growing up we knew what was expected of us from our parents, and in talking about the future we've noticed we didn't turn out all that bad, in fact we think we're pretty solid citizens. But what of our children? A throwback to 1975 may be just the thing a child of the future needs. Minimizing distractions seems to be a common theme with us. And when it comes to what we want our children to learn, our experience of being in classrooms has given us a depth of understanding with which we plan on supplementing our at-home learning experience for the first few years of our child's life.
And what will become of our moral compass?
We're an opinionated couple and anyone who knows us can pretty well know where we stand simply based on how much we're willing to divulge about our beliefs in casual conversation. Hopefully our strong personalities are capable of being encouraging to our child's natural instinct to develop as an individual and capable of giving our child the freedom to form their own unique opinions and respect those opinions.
Parenting is such a daunting thought for us to contemplate, and 9 months may not be enough time to build our playbook, but rest assured we won't be winging it.