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The TRUTH brother! You sound like a good parent and your girls are lucky to have parents like yourselves that care like that.
Well said.
Mine are 12 and 17 and that has always been the hardest part.
The day to day stufff you manage to get through, even though at times it feels like you never will. But the long term, bigger picture stuff is what always keeps me wondering.
I believe my husband and I have laid a good foundation in both our kids and now that they're older we can see it come through in them, by the choices they make and the way they interact with the world around them.
But it still runs through me a lot. Will they be happy, well adjusted adults or will something I've said or done while raising them put them on a therapists couch?
The TRUTH brother! You sound like a good parent and your girls are lucky to have parents like yourselves that care like that.
We are a blended family with 5 kids, 3 girls (15, 10, 8) and two boys (12,2).
Obviously the house is a zoo most of the time from sun-up to sun-down and beyond. Our house is the unofficial gathering/meeting spot for their friends from church or the neighborhood. And it's cool because I like the fact that my kids love and respect our relationship, boundaries we set and prinicipals, that they and their friends are comfortable hanging out at the house.
At this point in time, the hardest part of being a parent is calculating the grocery bill. Needless to say, we are both blessed and thankful for each and every one of them.
Back-to-school shopping is horrible, isn't it?
Damn, hard question. I guess the hardest part about being a parent is having kids, the best part? Having kids!
I mean it's such a dichotomy from day to day. I have a 13yr. old daughter and 4 yr. old twins, one boy and one girl. So I find myself constantly going back and forth from the mood swings of a 13 yr. old daughter to my twins fighting over a fork or something.
All I know is that it is what it is. It's parenting, you try to be a good role model, you try to love and protect your children, and you try to always be there for them and hopefully mold them into healthy young adults.
But at the end of the day, I don't expect to receive any kind of reward or recognition, it's simply what I must do, it's my responsibility as an adult, I signed up for it.
I also cannot imagine a life without my children, good or bad they are the love of my life.
The hardest part about being a parent is when you know you have to stand back and let them make their own mistakes.
Whataburger should start offering taquitos with a ground up morning-after pill mixed in during the 2AM-8AM range.
This is hard. You love them no mater what, and want to see them happy & succesful, but every once in a while life blows u some . Our "baby girl" was the golden child...Honor student, athletic, distance runner & varsity soccer, until right before she turned 17, she was in a horrendous accident. Now at 23, she is a reckless, crazy, risk taker. Just want to know some one out there will worship her for life. She is a beautiful girl with so much ambition, and the sweetest heart imaginable, only problem....she is taken for a mark, and taken advantage of
That's gotta be a full on s up .This is hard. You love them no mater what, and want to see them happy & succesful, but every once in a while life blows u some . Our "baby girl" was the golden child...Honor student, athletic, distance runner & varsity soccer, until right before she turned 17, she was in a horrendous accident. Now at 23, she is a reckless, crazy, risk taker. Just want to know some one out there will worship her for life. She is a beautiful girl with so much ambition, and the sweetest heart imaginable, only problem....she is taken for a mark, and taken advantage of
Her accident ding her mind?
My little girl is 5 and starts kindergarten this month and I'm scared I'm going to have to do prison time by the time she turns 17 seeing how the boys act nowadays.
Today I caught a teenage boy(looked to be about 17) checking out my teenage daughter. She is 13 1/2 and very cute. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
This is hard. You love them no mater what, and want to see them happy & succesful, but every once in a while life blows u some . Our "baby girl" was the golden child...Honor student, athletic, distance runner & varsity soccer, until right before she turned 17, she was in a horrendous accident. Now at 23, she is a reckless, crazy, risk taker. Just want to know some one out there will worship her for life. She is a beautiful girl with so much ambition, and the sweetest heart imaginable, only problem....she is taken for a mark, and taken advantage of
Being a parent is having your heart out there for everyone to stomp including them.
You should have kicked him in the nuts
And yes, her mind was dinged, big time
Please don't think I was trying to make light of your situation, and the " " comment was directed at what has happened, not your daughter.And yes, her mind was dinged, big time
That and be prepared when they try to be independant. Of course, when they're sick, they always want their mother!
My kids are 13, 11,and 9 (boy-girl-boy) and the hardest thing for me to deal with is the "fairness" whine. They just can't understand that because of gender & age, what's fair for one doesn't apply to another. Expectations vary. They have a very concrete vision of equality! I feel especially bad for the oldest---he's the "test child" so all of our parenting skills are learned on him! It's really tough being the oldest.
I'm just tired of my oldest picking on my youngest all the time. It's so ing annoying. He thinks he owns the every room in the house and is always telling him to leave whatever room he's in. He seems to keep forgetting that son #2 was kind enough to lend him his PS2 so he could play Guitar Hero and has not once asked for it back.
Oh, and the fact that he thinks I need HIS reinforcement when I'm scolding son #2.
Sometimes, I just want to drink my breakfast.
U will be o.k.That is what I thought exactly. Just kick the boyz in the nuts & u will be o.k.
I'm deathly afraid that if I ever have a child, I will it up somehow. It's not that I don't think I could do it, I'm just scared that I would mess up somehow in raising a child.
Ok. I want to edit my answer. The toughest thing about being a parent is to remember to keep "love them" greater than "want to kill them."
Reading this thread is enough birth control for me....
#1. The 3 stages-very young and huggable, then don't touch me or talk to me, then I'm acting this way because you can't do anything about it!
#2. Hang in there parents. They do all they do because your kids know you're still looking at them like when they were little and it's their way of getting attention while you're having heart attacks!
#3. There is an end to most of these child to adult growth stages. It won't likely happen until they reach their 30's. Lucky parents are those whose children reach awareness of responsibilities in the early 20's.
Just to my experiences, maybe mine don't match all situations.
There will be times you will mess up but saying, "I'm sorry" to the kid and admitting that parents can up too goes a long way.
Yeah it is. My youngest is 5 and she pretty much has it easy.
That was the hardest part for me too. You can advise them, but you have to let them make their own decisions and live with the consequences. If you make all the "right' decisions for your child then they never learn to make their own.
The second hardest part was trying to keep the mother from killing them in high school.
The hardest part for me is finding somebody to have my kid.
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