Real parents define parenting as a responsibility and not just as a title, meaning that parenting comes with commitment or with a price that must be paid for it to be successful or take it full course.
Titles might attract some rights and obligations, responsibility is accompanied by the inbuilt abilities or maturity and the understanding to perform a task as required, which are needed to make godly and gainful parenting a reality.
I want to believe that success in parenting begins from the point of understanding that God has a purpose for you in parenting, hence, parenting should be more than the title of motherhood.
Many parents who live in charity homes, or homes for the aged have successful and wealthy children. So money is not the problem and from experience, the parents who are sometimes sent to homes have their own buildings and have some good amount of money in their savings.
By the virtue of my calling and profession I have seen many parents who struggle to put their children through higher institutions being neglected by the same children that they invested their all into at the evening of their lives, when the children have become great and doing very well in their chosen careers.
It is important to emphasize that talking is not the same as communicating; that you talk does not guarantee understanding or relevant feedback, as the act of communication is understanding-centered and is not completed without relevant feedback. Meaning that when feedback from your spouse is irrelevant to the message you passed to him or her, you have not communicated with him or her, even though you have talked