How To Handle Our Parents As They Grow Older And Are More Fixed In Their Ways?

How to handle our parents as they grow older and are more fixed in their ways? Well, straight from the get go, understand this one thing, don’t expect it to be easy, don’t expect it to be a walk in the park.

We love our parents dearly and we respect them a lot, their family.

They have spent the last 60, 70 or 80 years running their life a certain way and are very familiar with that and in most cases want to continue even if there maybe a better way.

Until we are their age we will not fully understand so we need to respect their wishes in many cases….

I was speaking with a mother of 2 young children yesterday and she made the comment that when she was younger, before children, she couldn’t understand why parents only have 1 or 2 children.

Now she is in that same position she knows EXACTLY why.

It’s the same with our parents, we need to respect their wishes in many cases even if we think we know better.

Yes, I know, it’s not easy, it’s hard, it’s tough and we just want them to wake up and see the light and do it our way.

Have we ever put ourselves in the shoes of our parents and really understand what they are going through as they approach the latter part of their life?

Do we really understand what they are going through or are we making decisions based on what WE want, what makes our life better more convenient?

When we came into the world our parents loved us up and gave us unconditional love.

Whatever we wanted our parents would serve us and would fulfill our every need.

Imagine…. Just imagine if we could do the same for them.

Imagine if we could serve our parents now as they get older EXACTLY the same way they served us as we came into the world?.

We love them up, spend time with them, listen to the same stories over and over again over again, we hug them, we feed them, we bathe and dress them, we enjoy their presence and time together EXACTLY as their did for us as a child.

What a lovely and fitting way to spend time with our parents who are not getting any younger.

These would be the memories that we would be proud to have for the rest of our lives, wouldn’t they?

If I had my time with my parents again, that’s EXACTLY what I would do.

Love your parents up, that’s how to handle our parents.

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