You know that at times we all wonder if we are doing the right things when raising our young. Being a single mom for 7 years, with no involvement what-so-ever from her bio father, getting married to the love of my life who is also a DAD to her, and adding 2 (going on 3) brothers to the mix has been tough!! Especially on her. Not to mention that due to the marriage, we've moved an hour away from my family (the only family she's known). And I have to say that through all of this adjusting, she has handled it VERY WELL. I still worry and wonder what impact her bio father not being in her life has had on her. She is always fun loving and always seems to be hapy. Her teachers have always told me that they would have ever guessed that she comes from a broken home and they can usually tell.
Anyway, the other day, she came home from school and said that she made a friend with a girl who was mean to her a week before. She asked if I remember her telling me the story, I said that I did, and she told me what happened to make them friends....
While sitting in the lunchroom, eating breakfast (we were running late that morning), the girl tilted her head back and her wig fell off. We are not quite sure what the reason for the wig is other than the obvious though my daughter doesn't quite understand the full extent of a child being sick to that magnitude. Anyway, the wig fell off, and you guessed it, the other kids laughed at her!! Naturally, the girl started to cry and was quite embarassed. (sniff). MY DAUGHTER, who is sensitive of others being hurt/teased, got up from her table with her tray of food, and went over to the girl. She put her tray down, picked up the girls wig and placed it on her head while the girls had her head down on the table. MY DAUGHTER gave her a hug and said (quite loudly) that the other kids were jerks! They played together for the rest of the day. This mom beamed with pride!!
Te next day, I went to school to talk to her teacher about my daughter possibly needing glasses. The teacher re-told me the story and said that there was not a dry eye from the adults that were to witness this. Not to mention that by calling the other kids 'jerks', it stopped the laughing and even made some of the other kids befriend the girl as well!! I beamed again with PRIDE!!
I must be doing something right!!!!
P.S. What made me almost the most proud of what happened was that my daughter didn't tell me this to gloat at what she did, she just wanted to tell me that she made another friend..... (sniff)
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- ilovegarfield
on Feb. 7, 2007 at 11:46 AM