Parenting
Parenting is like being the lighthouse beam that’s trying to yell, “Danger, Will Robinson” and no one is listening.
Parenting is like watching a movie where the good guy is about to get attacked by the bad guy and you’re screaming; GET OUT OF THERE!
Parenting is picking up the pieces of a child shattered when you wouldn’t give her a cookie, and you’re fighting the urge to give in because you feel like a monster.
When they’re born, you say, “Such a bundle of love.”
When they’re going through the terrible two’s and the only word they’ll say is NO!!!, you’re asking yourself, “Bundle of love? What was I thinking?”
By the time they’re four, all you want is one day to yourself. ONE DAY.
The first day of elementary school, you’re watching the bus take them away, and crying until you have no more tears left inside.
When they turn thirteen, you remember how cute they were at seven: It’s the only way that both you and your children survive their teenage years.
Then, when they turn 18, and think they know everything, you pray that they survive until they’re 21.
Finally! You can rest!
NOT
Can you rest when they’re 25, and they’ve totalled their car while texting and driving?
Do you stop being a parent when they’re 30 and they still don’t know what they want to be when they grow up? No.
Surely you can rest when they’re over 40.
Bwahahahaha.
NOT!
If your parents are 120, and you’re 100, you’re still their baby!
There are words a child should never say to a parent whose Mom-alarm is going off. “I’ve had a bad week, but I’m fine,” followed closely by, “I’m tired and don’t want to talk.”
Here’s what a parent is thinking:
- OMG, s/he’s dying!!!!
That about covers it.
So so right! Once a parent, always a parent! May our “kids “ be safe and at peace.
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I had to live with my parents for 2 years when I was 22 & 23. It was like being 14 again.. 🙂
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I get that! My daughter says that I treat her like a child, when she is a mom herself! 😅😛
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It was an eye opener to be angry at my parents for so many years — until mine were in their 20’s and they still looked 14 to me. 🙂
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It sure is when the tables are turned.
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I turn 60 in a few weeks and my 86 year old mother still treats me like I’m 12… in a nice, but often annoying way. Some things never change.
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+Exactly. 🙂
Both my parents passed away years ago, I never understood why a parent still saw a child as, well…a child, until mine became adults.
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Oh! ha ha ha, LoL, I don’t know any part of this, Except one thing, my Mom still think i am a kid, That’s insane, or should I Lol?, May be that’s why i hate kids and hate to be a parent. Love this part “If you feel crazy, then you’re doing it right” 🙂 Things never change with these parents, so why be one and get cursed or curse an young soul 😀
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With over 7 billion people on the planet, it doesn’t seem as if people need a family of 10 any longer. I’d think that whoever told us to go forth and propagate meant for us to continue having huge families once a population and their environment hit a balance.
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I can tell you’re writing from personal experience! It’s also funnier when you write about it than when I go through it!!
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I was hoping people would see the humor in it. Thanks. 🙂
We never stop loving, never stop caring and never stop being a pain in the behind to our kids.
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I thought it was a good idea when we moved, and put some distance between us and our adult children/grandchildren. We’ve made 4-6 trips per year over a period of sixteen years. Twelve hours each way. We still worry about them. What did we gain by moving so far away? Nothing.
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You still worry, no matter how far away.
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Worrying about my kids is my full time job lol. But, I guess it’s nice to be needed at times. It was also lovely to be treated like a teen from my mom while she was here. It was nice to know someone was out there worrying about me and giving me advice. Of course, I didn’t realize how much I liked it until she was gone.
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That is an excellent point. Although I wouldn’t want to live with my mother, I felt that way too.
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Sounds like the universal truth, huh?
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I’m well into my 30’s and I’ve found this to be true. My mother still checks up on me like I’m a teenager living in her house and it doesn’t bother me at all. I know her love for her children is deep. My brother can’t stand it though. But I’ve come to realize that parents will always worry, they can’t help it. If I can give her a call several times a week to let her know I’m ok I can lower her stress level and blood pressure for another week. Most parents just want to know that their kids are ok. I don’t have children but I understand.
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Ugh! My kids are only little now and I don’t know how I’ll survive the teenage years…even the adult years I know already that I’ll never be able to stop caring. It’s a lifelong love we have for them!
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13 is a major crossroad in the life of a child. That’s when they test your limits by doing thing you wouldn’t think they’d try to do (like shoplifting and other theft). I wrote a bit about it in a reply on your blog.
You have so much great information for new mothers on your website. I hope you start getting a lot of traffic. Your blog was well worth looking through.
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Oh, this is so true. I really thought there would come a time when I could stop worrying but now I’m realising that is just not going to happen.
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My daughter turned 42 yesterday. I called to wish her a happy birthday and loved hearing the sound of her happiness. It is just as wondrous as the first Christmas when the look at the light, at Santa, and laughed out their joy.
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Yes, I must remember the positive side of parenting 🙂
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So true, I used to think once they were out the door, I wouldn’t need to worry about them anymore. But I’m a Mom forever and always. Great article!
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Thanks. 🙂
It was an eye opener to understand why mom and dad treated me like I was 14 no matter what my age. We don’t worry less, we worry more because we can’t be there to say, “No, don’t do that!”
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