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tentional with your time, The connection may
and more selective with your feel different, but
energy. Every yes now costs it’s just as powerful.
something else. And it grows, day by
You also begin to realize the day, through chaos,
mistakes you made the first cuddles, and count-
time and ironically, you start less small moments
making a few new ones too. in between.
Maybe you were too rigid with You also begin to
your first child and too lenient see love between
with the second. Maybe you your children, a re-
compare them unintention- lationship that’s en-
ally expecting the second to tirely theirs, forged
sleep like the first, or the first in shared toys and
to behave like a “grown-up” sibling squabbles, in
overnight. Parenting doesn’t protectiveness and more laughter, more energy,
get easier, but it gets more play. It’s messy. It’s loud. But and somehow more heart.
informed. You learn to let go it’s beautiful. Having a second child doesn’t
of some anxieties. You also Care, too, takes a new shape. just change the family dynam-
discover how deeply ingrained With one child, you hover. ic, it redefines it. It deepens it.
some expectations are and With two, you adapt. You stop It challenges and humbles you.
how every child challenges trying to control everything And in the end, it shows you
them in new ways. and start trusting yourself that real, raw, imperfect love is
But here’s the thing no one more. You let go of perfection. always capable of expanding.
tells you enough: love doesn’t You ask for help more freely.
divide when you have a You start to parent with less
second child. It multiplies. fear and more flow.
The fear that you won’t have The house is never truly quiet Mrs. Shikha Deepak Gurve
enough to give that your heart anymore. It’s often cluttered, w/o Sh. Deepak Gurve, Astt. Cmdt.
2nd Signal Bn HYD
is already too full melts away noisy, and bursting at the
the first time you hold them. seams. But it’s also filled with