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I'm currently raising my three year old daughter by myself and was struck recently by the fact that I can't believe my mother raised me and my two sisters. Don't get me wrong she had my father to help, but he spent much of our growing up years traveling in order to make money for the family. So she was left to deal with three kids for a majority of the time.

I used to think that my father was the one that worked hard and all my mom did was "stay at home with the kids". It was true that she stayed at home with the kids, but now I know just how difficult that must have been. Now that I deal with just one kid asking me over and over again if she can "be a doggy", I realize that my mother was the one that worked hard. Hell, going to a job to deal with other adults is easy compared to dealing with a single child, let alone three!

So here I am, some thirty years later, wondering how it was that my mother kept her sanity. Actually she's had some issues in the past, which I now understand completely. Spending all day everyday with your child, although rewarding in many ways, can be the most mind numbing experience that can be imagined. Although I would rather be with my daughter than send her to daycare, I realize why many people send the children to daycare or some other activity for a "break". Without intermittent breaks, many people would fall straight off the deep end.

The bottom line is that in the wonderful way this universe works, through my daughter, I've been given the gift of a new found respect for my mother. When my daughter has me ready to break down and cry from the incessant questions about coloring and play dough, I just think of my Mom and wonder how in the world she did it without trying to shoot herself.

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing and founder of yourmoneyconnection.com Trevor has more than 15 years of business experience and currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country - Montana.

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