Graham Chastney's Blessings

There are some decisions in life that lead you into a long term commitment buying a house, setting married, having children.

There are many negative ways of looking at these commitments; burdens, strings, ties, loads. But I prefer to view them as investments with a long-term payback.

Recently to have started to see some of those investments taking on a new level of maturity.

Jonathan has started a part time job in a local shop after school & on Saturdays. The way he has approached work has been great. It has been very mature. He could have gone in and told everyone how wonderful he was, but he didn’t. He recognised that his first job was to make the tea and the coffee. He was humble enough to recognise what his role was. The long-term investment of parenting is maturing.

Emily has recently been doing SATS. she’s decided that she wanted a desk in her room, somewhere to work. And work she has, in a very mature way. More parental investment paying off.

These important investments, and it’s great to see them maturing.