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Cheers! If you are reading this post, odds are it is because you are a parent or about to become one. We at Extrahourdinary Parenting are taking a moment to toast your decision to do so!
Raising kids is exhausting, frustrating, and expensive, but as most people will tell you, it’s also a lot of fun. And most people won’t tell you that it is also the ultimate legacy. There are all sorts of ways you can leave a positive impact on this world, but perpetuating the species with a well-raised member of it… there’s not much greater legacy than that. In some parts of the world, birth rates are so low that entire populations will die out in the next 50 years or so (there is a great book on this called America in 2050: The Next Hundred Million). Raising kids is not always the cool thing to do, and much of American society had become a bit “unfriendly” to the logistics and tribulations of it as European and Japanese birth trends showed up here for a while in past decades.
Fortunately, that is changing, and having kids is much more the “in” thing to do these days. But in or out, kudos to you for being part of the greatest activity, and the greatest legacy, you will have the privilege of creating. It’s a tough choice, but a smart one. Cheers!!
