My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.
Interpretation
Parenthood involves sacrifices that are often underestimated, but the rewards are profound.
This quote highlights the complexities and challenges of parenthood, specifically the sacrifices that one makes over the years to support a child's education and development. Regina Brett reflects on how the journey is filled with unexpected costs—time, money, and personal sacrifice—that become clear only in hindsight, but ultimately lead to the joy of witnessing a child reach significant milestones, such as graduating from high school.
In practice
This quote can be used during a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of family support.
When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
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Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and notice. Smell and touch them; study their faces and little feet and pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today mama. It will be over before you know it.
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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