We all Love our children, but do we enjoy them?

I've been among mothers with their children daily by spending some time in our community swimming pool while the summer days are hot.  It's the week when kids are returning to school.  Some mothers bring them after school to enjoy the water.   It's great to see how much children love water, and adults.  But for some reason children like to take advantage of it's "thereaputic properties" more than adults.   So here are the children having fun with their sibling(s) in the water while Mom sits on the phone.  The children love to show off to Mom, "Mom look at me!"  "Look what I can do!"  "Mom can you come!"  "Mom can you get me that flotie?"  After being ignored or rejected because they're interrupting Mom's phone conversation, they just go away and leave Mom alone.   Then they start bickering at each other and here comes Mom yelling at the top of her lungs, "If you don't stop that, we're leaving right now.  I'm tired of you all day and I have no more patience!!!!!"

What was more startling was the boy's response, "Be quiet!" and swam away and left her yelling.

I concluded by all the examples that the culture (and last generation parents) have raised a generation of selfish parents, who love their kids but don't know how to enjoy them.

What is more sad to me are the children who desperately want their parents to enjoy life with them and to discipline them too.   I've seen enough yelling and no proper discipline.  The fact that  dear mothers lack patience, maybe because they don't spend enough time together with their little ones.  I've found it to be the best training program for me.  God makes me and forms me into His likeness the more time I spend beholding Him through the precious eyes of my children.   Sometimes I feel selfish too because I think I'm getting the best of it.  But I know that they are more happy with a happy Mom too and learn the virtues as well.