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| of your "parenting skills"? |
| Posted by esther on 05/17/2008 11:52 PM
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| Honestly, it depends on the day. Sometimes I'm the coolest mom ever and sometimes I'm the strictest and most unreasonable mom ever. Just depends on what the issues of the day are and how the kids' attitudes have been. We do have more good days than bad though. |
| posted by Kelly on 05/18/2008 03:51 AM
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| It depends on his mood. Just last night, he said that he was getting headaches. He said he needed vitamins. If I could go buy some. I told him to stop eating "junk food" with his friends, and start eating healthy "whole foods" and his headaches would diminish. He says "aaaaahhhhhh, maybe your'e right", then he went to bed. |
| posted by esther on 05/18/2008 02:05 PM
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| It seems to depend on what he wants and if he can get it. If we don't give in to certain things then he says we are bad parents. |
| posted by sillymom on 05/18/2008 04:10 PM
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| Well, lately I've been hearing "I hate you!" or "Your so mean!" on almost a daily basis. sigh....Basically if I say no to a request I'm a horrible mom. |
| posted by Dana on 05/24/2008 06:26 PM
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| Yesterday, we were the coolest parents ever because we got our daughter a Jonas Brothers cd she's been wanting. Two days before that we were the most horrible parents ever because we don't want her to go back to public school in the middle school years (she's going into 7th grade). Horrible, mean, and we never listen, by the way. |
| posted by Kelly on 05/25/2008 08:13 AM
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| Kelly, good for you, I can't believe how horrible public middle school is! The stories my daughter tells me about school make me wish I could afford private school. Keep your child out of it as long as you can. |
| posted by Dana on 05/25/2008 04:19 PM
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| I ask my kids that all the time and they tell me they love me and that I am a good mom.I have no idea what the sd thinks.She never answers.She only wants a mom that lets her run when she wants and do what she wants. |
| posted by Lexi on 06/17/2008 05:22 PM
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Even though our son does not always come out and say things to compliment us, he did yesterday. I had my a/c serviced, and the technician was telling us his whoa's with his oldest daughter who now goes to parties-which they were aware of-but, now involve drinking-something he and his wife were not aware of. Well, she was drunk as a skunk last weekend, and he was very disappointed. His daughter is very active in the community, church, captain of 3 sports, and is a straight A student. This service technician was very disappointed in his daughters actions, he commented how it was nice to see our son at home helping out.
When the technician left, our son turned to me and said "you and dad are lucky to have me. I don't go to parties, I don't drink, I don't do drugs, and if you have'nt noticed, I don't have a girlfriend". I turned to him and said "no son, you are lucky to have us as parents. If you didn't you most likely would be at parties, having girlfriends, drinking, doing drugs. Its' your moods which create havoc here. You get rid of those, we would be an arguement free house". He agreed. Then he went into a heavy, heavy conversation with me. It was great. He was opening up in a way I have not seen. Usually he opens up with his Dad, but, yesterday, it was me. We have a great kid. I know he loves us. |
| posted by esther on 06/21/2008 02:09 PM
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