I think I am actually getting through!

[LadySaphira]

Every parent, I think, has questioned whether or not the lessons and morals/ethics they are trying to teach their children are getting through. I know I certainly have plenty of times.

Yesterday it finally hit me that I must be doing something right. My oldest son, Michael,who will be 20 next month, came home to "visit". You know how kids are at that age, when they are home from college they spend 99% of their time with friends. I have not been feeling well lately and have been dealing with an abscessed tooth.  My house has been a complete disaster, I just have not felt like doing anything, and my girls have gotten a lazy streak a mile long lately. I did not get to sleep until after 2 am on Tuesday night and was sleeping in. Michael woke me up at 9 and told me he cleaned my kitchen and did my dishes for me. (It's a good thing I was still in bed or I would have fell over from shock LOL) He THEN sat down with Roo and patiently helped him work the control to the video game he was playing to enter some cheats. This is the same young man who is normally very impatient with his brother and gets irritated by him easily.

Roo announced to me that he wants to write a letter to "an Army guy in the war" and tell him thank you and "keep up the good work" This is a huge step for him as he is multiply disabled and some of his disabilities effect him socially.

My daughters friend came over to visit and I over heard her telling my daughters that she wishes her mom worried about her like I do them.  She also told them they should be glad that I love them enough to care and they should listen to me more.  The conversation occurred after I refused to let her walk home by herself after dark . It made me kind of sad for her though, that she feels her mom doesnt love her enough to care what she does. Her mom currently lives in FL and she lives up here with her father. She is obviously needing some motherly attention and asked me if she could  call me mom. She told me that I worry about her more than her mother does. I am glad she feels comfortable here. She is a good kid. she is always very polite when she comes over and even puts up with Roo's crap really well. She calls him her new little brother.

 I know my kids are basically good kids. People are always telling me that they are polite and well behaved. I just didn't realize how much of what I have tried to teach them over the years had sunk in.

MY KIDS ROCK!

[older]

Jan. 8, 2009 at 12:15 PM

YOU REALIZE WHAT EFFECT YOU HAVE HAD ON THEM WHEN THEY GET OLDER, IT DOES SINK IN, ALTHOUGH AT THE TIME IT SEEMS IT DOESN'T, GREAT JOB MOM!