The Child's Handbook

        There is no parenting handbook. Ask any parent. When you give birth you are given a booklet and CD that gives you only one insight into the world you have entered and only one rule. The insight? Babies cry. A lot. You might not know why they're crying. The one rule? Don't hurt or kill the child you worked so hard to create. Let them cry if you must, just don't hurt or kill them. That is all. After three children I am certain that they are given a manual of how to challenge their parents.
        I have a 4 year old, Cassia, a 2 year old, Camellia, and a 3 month old, Jewel Plant and I have learned that, while parents do not have a handbook, children do. The rules in the handbook can sometimes be universal and other times be unique to the child and parent, but the number one rule in every child's handbook is, "Test the limits of your parents as far as you can, so long as you do not make them break the only rule they have been given."
        Join with me as I attempt to learn the secrets of The Child's Handbook.

 *The names of the innocent have been changed for their protection*

Jewel Plant

Jewel Plant