For a little over a year I have been sharing with my readers the ups, downs and in-betweens of parenthood through my eyes. In that time, this column has become more than just a journal for me. Through my writing I have connected with others – parents and kids, teachers and coaches – and have used my place on Patch as a forum for all of us.
Parenting is much more than just raising kids. The role of a parent is a multi-faceted one,Overview description of rapid tooling processes. as most of us are also working adults, companions to our friends and siblings, as well as sons or daughters. In other words, our kids may very well be the center of our lives but there are so many other people who rely on us.
Try as we might, we can never satisfy everyone all the time, at least not to the extent that they would like – or that we would. One of the key threads in my writing has been the balance that parents struggle to strike or maintain between all of the demands on their time and sanity. I have tried my best to tie together every topic I lecture upon with this thread, in the hopes it will in some way help us all.
I hope that my readers have found this helpful. In many ways it has changed my life for the better, and has streamlined the way I handle my duties as a father, husband and friend to so many others. In other ways, however, I have come up short of my goals. Times like these have not deterred me, though they have given me pause, and forced me to reevaluate the way I do certain things.
Early in the fall I decided to pursue a career change. I’m a stay-at-home dad, who writes part-time for Patch, while my wife has a full-time career as a nurse. While I have thoroughly enjoyed the time I have been able to spend with my kids – not to mention the money we have saved on child care – I have begun to crave a career of my own.
I recently completed a course at Madonna University to be a pharmacy technician,Thank you for visiting our newly improved DIY chickencoop website! and am eager to find a job in the field. It is going to be a bold, new chapter in my life, in fact in our lives. But as many of my readers know, finding a job is almost as much work as having one is. I spend countless hours now scouring the internet for jobs, and re-tooling my credentials, including my resume.
It demands a tremendous amount of focus and patience. As such, I have discovered that I need to be able to commit myself to the task in every way that I can in order to ensure that I get where I need to be. And while I thought at one time that scaling back my writing commitments for Patch to just my column would suffice,Product information for Sell electronicplasticmoulds from China! I have come to realize it doesn’t.
So,Credit is not an issue with our offshoremerchantaccounts. this will be my last edition of Family-Friendly Canton. I have not arrived at this decision easily. In fact,This billabongboardshort has the following technological features: I have been putting off making it for quite some time. There is something inherently calming about this column for me. It allows me to sort out all of my worries, concerns, hopes and to get some of the more vexing questions I have had answered.
You may have noticed over the last few months that Patch has become incredibly user-friendly. We now have numerous people in the community blogging on a variety of topics. In many ways, this kind of interaction with the community is what Patch has always been about, and has striven for since it took root here in Michigan in late 2010.
For over a year I have been retelling the stories of the citizens of Canton who did not have a forum of their own to do so. And in turn, many Patch readers have become engaged in these stories on their own. Through our “comments” column on the Canton home page, many discussions have blossomed – and flourished.
My hope is that there is a parent out there who has followed Family-Friendly Canton and would like to pick up where I leave off. My approach to the column was pretty scattershot, in that I tried not to limit my focus. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and no two experience life the same way. I suppose that I hoped to be able to reach as many of them as possible.
But maybe there is a mom or a dad out there that has a better idea, even just a different one. I encourage anyone who is interested to contact John McKay, who now is editing Canton Patch. This is, after all your community, Canton, and who better to address it than you? I am not leaving it. I will be around. I hope to find someday soon that one of you has picked up where I left off.
I have to extend a huge thank-you to former Canton Patch editor Peg McNichol, who just left us this past week, for giving me the opportunity to write Family Friendly Canton, and who was so incredibly supportive of my vision, as well as my learning curve.
Parenting is much more than just raising kids. The role of a parent is a multi-faceted one,Overview description of rapid tooling processes. as most of us are also working adults, companions to our friends and siblings, as well as sons or daughters. In other words, our kids may very well be the center of our lives but there are so many other people who rely on us.
Try as we might, we can never satisfy everyone all the time, at least not to the extent that they would like – or that we would. One of the key threads in my writing has been the balance that parents struggle to strike or maintain between all of the demands on their time and sanity. I have tried my best to tie together every topic I lecture upon with this thread, in the hopes it will in some way help us all.
I hope that my readers have found this helpful. In many ways it has changed my life for the better, and has streamlined the way I handle my duties as a father, husband and friend to so many others. In other ways, however, I have come up short of my goals. Times like these have not deterred me, though they have given me pause, and forced me to reevaluate the way I do certain things.
Early in the fall I decided to pursue a career change. I’m a stay-at-home dad, who writes part-time for Patch, while my wife has a full-time career as a nurse. While I have thoroughly enjoyed the time I have been able to spend with my kids – not to mention the money we have saved on child care – I have begun to crave a career of my own.
I recently completed a course at Madonna University to be a pharmacy technician,Thank you for visiting our newly improved DIY chickencoop website! and am eager to find a job in the field. It is going to be a bold, new chapter in my life, in fact in our lives. But as many of my readers know, finding a job is almost as much work as having one is. I spend countless hours now scouring the internet for jobs, and re-tooling my credentials, including my resume.
It demands a tremendous amount of focus and patience. As such, I have discovered that I need to be able to commit myself to the task in every way that I can in order to ensure that I get where I need to be. And while I thought at one time that scaling back my writing commitments for Patch to just my column would suffice,Product information for Sell electronicplasticmoulds from China! I have come to realize it doesn’t.
So,Credit is not an issue with our offshoremerchantaccounts. this will be my last edition of Family-Friendly Canton. I have not arrived at this decision easily. In fact,This billabongboardshort has the following technological features: I have been putting off making it for quite some time. There is something inherently calming about this column for me. It allows me to sort out all of my worries, concerns, hopes and to get some of the more vexing questions I have had answered.
You may have noticed over the last few months that Patch has become incredibly user-friendly. We now have numerous people in the community blogging on a variety of topics. In many ways, this kind of interaction with the community is what Patch has always been about, and has striven for since it took root here in Michigan in late 2010.
For over a year I have been retelling the stories of the citizens of Canton who did not have a forum of their own to do so. And in turn, many Patch readers have become engaged in these stories on their own. Through our “comments” column on the Canton home page, many discussions have blossomed – and flourished.
My hope is that there is a parent out there who has followed Family-Friendly Canton and would like to pick up where I leave off. My approach to the column was pretty scattershot, in that I tried not to limit my focus. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and no two experience life the same way. I suppose that I hoped to be able to reach as many of them as possible.
But maybe there is a mom or a dad out there that has a better idea, even just a different one. I encourage anyone who is interested to contact John McKay, who now is editing Canton Patch. This is, after all your community, Canton, and who better to address it than you? I am not leaving it. I will be around. I hope to find someday soon that one of you has picked up where I left off.
I have to extend a huge thank-you to former Canton Patch editor Peg McNichol, who just left us this past week, for giving me the opportunity to write Family Friendly Canton, and who was so incredibly supportive of my vision, as well as my learning curve.
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