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"Kids and their hair these days!" said every parent ever.
Great Egrets at the rookery at high Island, TX
I'd made it most of the way round Strumpshaw Fen when I came across two large swans sitting rigt in the middle of the path. My heart sank when I saw they had two cygnets...I crept very slowly passed them...within 3 or 4 feet and was only hissed at as I stepped away from them - they then congratulated each other on a job well done ;-)
Proud Expectant Parents
Yellow-crowned Heron bring a gift of nesting materials and inspecting their four precious eggs at Ocean City, New Jersey
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I'm not someone who likes to parent by punishment. I like to inspire cooperation and model good behavior. But sometimes that doesn't work. Like when you slam your sisters head in the door "by accident". Or when you punch her in the face (another accident, you argued, because you meant to punch her in the leg and missed). Everyone makes mistakes, but I'm beginning to suspect that you think it's ok to be mean. So today we took your door off it's hinges, took away all electronics, made you write lines and letters of apology. I know this isn't you. You're going through something and whatever it is, I'd like to help you through it, but being nice and kind and respectful are three things I will insist upon. Here you are laughing at someone who didn't deserve to be laughed at. Check yourself, kiddo. Mama is unimpressed.
My parents and Holly called round for a few hours this afternoon on their way to the Lakes. It was lovely to see them. My dad can't walk very well now so he chilled in my flat while my mum and I went for a walk around all my favourite haunts. We walked along the Leeds Liverpool Canal and then over to the River Aire. We had a cappuccino on my favourite "thinking seat" and were lucky enough to see my special heron friend...he doesn't very often let me down. We ended up in Myrtle Park which Holly was very excited about - so many new faces, doggies and smells.
A couple of days ago we found a baby bluetit in the garden, I hid him in some ivy away from next doors nosy cat. Today I noticed that he is still in the ivy and his parents are visiting with food :)
Architecte : Claude Parent [1923-2016]
- D'après Claude Parent il s'agirait de son 2ème immeuble. Il a été réalisé pour un promoteur opposé à toute innovation architecturale.
Freshly hatched storks in the Zoo Basel. When watching both parents take care of their young ones, the nest and the still unhatched eggs, one realizes how much work goes into this. Compared to other storks around, the parents are a lot skinnier and their feathers are a lot less cared for. As probably many human counterparts would agree: Parenting is a hell of a job, especially at the beginning.
I'm at a loss as to how to best label what I see in this hoodoo feature. Maybe a parent and child, as I titled this, but maybe a dog with its little tail sticking up. In the end, this is just another marvel of nature's work over countless years of erosion, not matter how our pareidolia tendencies see it.
Mommy is working today, so he thought he'd join her on his own "laptop." His computer is a lot more fun. By phone camera. #59/366
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Informal portrait of my mum and dad in their home taken using on camera flash bounced off the ceiling and a reflector - which unfortunately did catch a highlight in their glasses.
Tonight at a restaurant an older woman stopped by to compliment us on how well our boys were behaved. Which was funny, because not ten minutes before that I had commented to Michael that they were having a particularly good night. It was a nice thing to hear after a bit of a rough week: all four of us came down with a GI bug and we've had some challenging "toddler" moments from the older one.
Despite the downs involved in the parenting rollercoaster, I almost daily feel as though the days/weeks/months are slipping by entirely too fast. I'm lucky right now in that the younger one (still a baby in my book) falls asleep while we rock together in a chair at night, and I get to cherish his warmth and weight and I get to breathe him in and be truly mindful of our time together. In those moments I feel as though the hardest parts of parenting for me aren't the tantrums or the sleep-deprived nights or the constant winter colds or the loss of time and energy once devoted to being creative (and that is a hard part). Rather, the hardest part for me is realizing how very little time I have to enjoy these boys in each stage of their lives as they grow. How no matter how mindful I am, there will be a day when I can barely recall what their voices sounded like when they first learned to talk, or their bumbling unsteady steps as they learned to walk, or what it was like to sit and rock with each of them.
Too soon they'll be too big to rock, too embarrassed of me to hug for more than a moment (especially in public), too grown-up to hold my hand.
So that's the hardest part, I think, about parenting: loving them so much that you'd prefer they not grow up, but helping them to do just exactly that.
Image made with my Nikon F100.
Looking proudly at the eggs and the young ones in the nest and guarding all with their lives ...
"And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour.
And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy, and say: “My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was small.”
[Quran 17:23-24]
A beautiful day for a wedding
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“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Tehran,Iran
Summer 2009
A Good parent is something which takes effect on their kids predominantly when they grow up. Being a good parent is not a skill one should develop, it is something you teach through your actions.
Read More: chuchutv.com/blog/10-things-kids-need-from-parents/
This is a parent that is watching over the young ones, Trying to gather up the energy to go get them some more food.
1 in 6 parents know their child has been bullied over social media. In over half of these cases, their child was a repeat victim. Over half of parents whose children have social media accounts are concerned about cyberbullying and more than three-quarters of parents have discussed the issue of online bullying with their children.
Statistic taken from:http://www.covenanteyes.com/2012/01/17/bullying-statistics-fast-facts-about-cyberbullying/
Photo taken from:http://theonlinemom.com/secondary.asp?id=106
I love taking shots of birds in flight and swallows are especially challenging as they are speedy and change direction constantly. Years ago on Flickr, l saw a photo of a swallow in flight and that showed me that it could be done given a lot of practice
Birds leave when you to get too close, but I wanted a shot that had little cropping. So, I added a teleconverter making my lens 560mm so I could be further away. I also hid in the shadow of a low wall so I wouldn’t be as visible.
It was a bright day, so I was able to change my aperture to f/10 to get more of the shot in focus and to increase my shutter speed to 1/3200 trying to decrease motion blur. Fortunately, I was able to keep my ISO at 800 so my shot would not have too much noise. I set my camera on burst mode and waited until something happened. Then I got lucky!
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2018 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
Best enlarged - minor crop
ƒ/10.0
560.0 mm
1/3200
ISO 800
I am honored that this photo was chosen as one of top 25 photos on Flickr in 2018 from around the world.