If Your Kids Could Choose Their Parents, Would They Choose You?

I found this commercial — made to combat the ever-growing population of parents who abuse alcohol — to be chilling and poignant.

Though I don’t abuse drugs or alcohol, I could easily insert my own struggles as a parent into the enclosed glass of the parents the kids were observing… me sitting on a bed, tapping away on my laptop, forgetting dates that are important to the kids, not taking enough care for dinner plans…

Thankfully, our kids don’t choose us and (for the most part) we don’t choose them.  God, in his infinite wisdom, places people together in families according to his own plan.

Still, I want to be a loving parent so that my kids would choose me…  if given the option.

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