Lesson learned

Life lessons 

My mom and dad are foster parents. Becoming a foster parent requires you to temporally take care of kids of all ages. The kids stay at your house for as long as their social worker needs you to. Sometimes the kids we take care of have special needs for example, ADHD, Down syndrome and more. Since my parents work there, they would get invited to certain parties the association hosts. When I was smaller I remember that we had went to a Christmas party and they had only given the foster kids gifts. I became very upset and told my mom I would of preferred to have been a foster kid, so I would receive gifts all the time. My mom ended up taking me to one of the meetings where they explained why kids get taken away from their parents.

That meeting ended up becoming a rough eye opener. Within the meeting they talked about, how kids where taken away from their parents for being abused. Many of the kids where physically abused, or their parents used drugs, or because their parents would rape them. They also showed kids who had nowhere to live and didn’t know when their next meal would come. That same day I had apologized to my mom and thanked her for everything I had.

That meeting made me realize that those gifts the kids got were very little compared to what they had gone through. I realized I had to appreciate everything I had even when it was very little. I used to complain about where I lived and what I had but there is someone out there who doesn’t have nothing. Honestly till this day I thank my parents for taking me to the meeting, because now I understand I have to be grateful for everything that I be given or have.