If you are a father, then you have probably spent many sleepless nights wondering what you could do to improve the life of your child. Although you may be doing everything in your power to make your child’s life as wonderful as possible, sometimes it seems as if nothing you do is enough. You probably work very hard every day in an attempt to provide everything that your child needs. You have probably bought a great bed for your child and placed it in a warm room for them to sleep in. Every night, you are satisfied with the knowledge that your child is sleeping in a warm, safe bed. This alone makes you a great father: there are many children in the United States who are forced to sleep on the floor or even out in the streets. In African countries, the children rarely have a bed to sleep in; they are forced to sleep in tents and other makeshift dwellings.
Beyond a bed and a roof over your child’s head, you probably also work very hard to make sure that your child has the food and water that they need for survival. Like any animal, a human being will soon perish without a regular diet of food and water. Children often need even more food than an adult, since their body is in the process of growing and getting stronger. Unless your child is complaining everyday about how hungry they are, you are probably doing a great job at providing an adequate supply of food and water for them.
Children also need clothing. The most inconvenient thing about providing clothing for children is that they tend to outgrow their clothes quite quickly. This means that you are forced to continuously buy new clothes for your growing child. This cost can be mitigated by passing on the clothing items of the older children down to the younger children. This “hand-me-down” method of clothing children has been utilized by humans throughout history. If you are engaging in this practice, then there is no need to feel any amount of shame.
Once these basic needs are met, you probably want your child to have the best education possible. Increasingly, parents have discovered that the public school system is inadequate at providing a proper education for children. The huge bureaucracies, incompetent teachers, and the emphasis on obedience and unimportant busywork has turned off a great deal of parents from the public school system. Instead, parents have been forced to rely on crude alternative methods like homeschooling if they want any hope for their children to have a decent education.
Even after you provide all these services to your children with no thought of compensation, you may be dismayed to find that they are still unsatisfied. One large contributing factor is that children have the desire for entertainment. One of the most common ways that children entertain themselves is by playing. For this reason, it is a great idea to provide many playthings to occupy your children when they get bored.
Perhaps the best entertainment item you could get for your children is a wooden swing set. Children across the ages love the physical and mental stimulation that a swing set can provide them. You may find that your children spend more time with their new swing set than they spend doing anything else. They will probably try to see how high they can swing, and then they will try to see how far they can jump off the swing. When word gets out amongst the neighborhood children that you have installed a wooden swing set in your yard, they will flock to your home like a moth to a flame. Your children will probably lose track of how many new friends they have acquired by virtue of the new swing set. Finally, you will be able to sleep at night knowing that your children are finally happy and satisfied.