The desire to make our children happy!! Yep, another big one for me. I, as the mother, am supposed to keep everyone happy, right?! WRONG. I often find myself constantly checking in on my children to make sure everyone is smoothed down, just like a mother hen!! (smile) Yet, if you come to our house, as well as Kristen's house, you will find it is just not happy all the time. I tell the kids often, "I can't make everyone happy!" and I do believe it but I want to accept it. I think thing that will help with that acceptance is because of another thing that was wrote. "Typically, we our children are not happy it is because we are standing our ground." LOVE THIS!! I also say that our job a parents is not primarily to be our children's friends but firstly, to parent them and then so often that follows with respect and friendship!!
Fixing my kids problems. I think this goes along with making them happy. I realize I just cannot always step in and fix their problems but this is hard for me as well. As it was pointed out, so often that is because we hate to see our kids struggle!!
Unrealistic expectations. Just because everyone at school has an iPhone in their freshman year AND and i-pod doesn't altar my decision that my freshman doesn't. My children know because I AM the adult and parent I have extra privileges and they have to understand and accept that! Pretty much sums it up!
There was so many other things in there that I loved.... the party bag thing... (smile) is so good to hear from anther's with the same point of view! Anyway, parenting is not for the faint of heart and I often feel that so many parents just give up when they start dealing with teenage issues. Now I know why!! HA!!
On that line of thought....our eldest is attempting to be challenging to his parents. He has had a hard junior year. He is very sick and tired of school and I remember that well myself so I can understand. While I wish I could make all his struggles go away(smile), I can't...! Teenagers...ahh... Then, this weekend I found him playing with Little Bear and Bella and it warmed my heart so much! Then, these photos were from Yesterday! It just goes way too fast (our kids growing up)!!!
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| Little Bear pulling his way bigger brother around. Pretty cute! |
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| Ha! Love Lil Bear's look! |
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| Cyrus was getting up from the ground and taking off from Bear. |
1 comment:
Love these brother pictures! A true capture that you are doing a great job with your children! I work with so many teenagers who are grumpy, fighting with their siblings, staying locked in their room, playing video games, being disrespectful to their parents etc! So many of "their" problems, are really parenting problems, that parents project on their child! Sad cycle! The sibling pictures warmed my heart!
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