From the author: Motherhood and fatherhood are a process of self-discovery. What drives us in life? What makes us feel that life is not being lived in vain? Throughout life, we manage to achieve something, to show ourselves and others what we are really worth. Symbolically speaking, we conquer mountains (there is such a motif in Symboldrama, a method that I use in my psychotherapeutic practice). We climb to the heights of success and see new distances, new goals, new mountains there. “The only thing better than mountains are mountains that you have never been to before,” Vysotsky sang. And we change our profession, desires, lifestyle and direct our gaze to a new unconquered peak. But there is one peak that we conquer throughout our lives. This is a mountain called Motherhood or Fatherhood. Maybe someone will object that having given birth to a child in a maternity hospital, you a priori become a mother and that’s it. The issue has been resolved and is beyond doubt. Biologically and even psychologically – yes, I agree. But now I’m talking about achievements, about conquering mountains, as the final process, therefore, having become a biological mother in the maternity hospital, the ascent to the mountain of Motherhood is just beginning. You are just beginning to feel and understand yourself in this new role for you - Mother or Father. And the process of understanding and awareness, the formation of your individual image of Mother and Father lasts throughout your life. Each period of a child’s growing up requires changes from you, requires willpower from you, and gaining additional knowledge. And even if the child is not the first, mothers and fathers with many children will not let you lie, still with each child you discover yourself through motherhood and fatherhood in a new way, something does not fit with past experience, some new problems open up new ways for them decisions, and you change with them. Motherhood and fatherhood are always an experiment. After all, you can yell or not yell at your child, force him or develop your own responsibility in him, admire him or be constantly dissatisfied, isolate yourself from his problems or stick to him and not give him the opportunity to breathe, etc. Which option do you choose? Throughout life, it is Parenthood that reveals in us those qualities that we would never have thought about if we had not had a child. It is this that forces us to finally separate from our parents, constantly determine priorities in the family, forces us to preserve our families (it’s no secret that if it weren’t for children, their infantile parents would run away several times more often), and ultimately, forces us to be more disciplined and wiser and maintain your intellect by re-reading school literature and solving school problems. There is no climbing this mountain without moments in which you feel powerless, unable to cope, unable to move on. This feeling that you are a bad, unloved, incapable mother or a bad, worthless father stops you on your way. Your hands give up, your heart stops, your smile and gaze freeze. After all, children sometimes behave ungratefully, without thinking that they can hurt you in the heart. Or they don’t live up to the hopes placed on them, our expectations that the path of Motherhood will be strewn with only roses... And you, Parent, don’t know how to live on. If it was at work, you could quit, if it concerned friends, you could stop communicating, a hobby, you could change your area of ​​interest, etc. In general, isolate yourself from the problem, leave, run away. It's more difficult with children. You can't hide from them and you can't run away. Therefore, it is Parenthood at such moments that opens the way to God through forgiveness and humility. And you learn to live in a new way and move on. Motherhood and fatherhood opens our hearts to UNLIMITED LOVE for our children. Throughout our lives, we give them something that we would never be able to experience and feel if they had not appeared - FREE and SELFLESS LOVE that has no boundaries. Over time, children begin to conquer their own heights, boasting of their successes to us. They, who have not yet reached the pinnacle of Parenthood, do not yet know…