Most of you know that I've got four children. My eldest is seventeen. Oh heavens...how did that happen? Wasn't I just seventeen the other day? I'm sure I was.... Well, she's amazing. I know the majority of mothers have very high compliments to pay their children--and rightly so. However, my baby girl is astounding by anyone's standards. She is going to high school and college at the same time. In high school she's taking mostly AP (Advanced Placement) classes, which also count for college credits. She gets up at five a.m. every morning, goes to Seminary, then goes to school, she works four hours daily as an office manager at Winderemere Real Estate. She speaks Spanish, plays piano, guitar and flute. She goes to the gym daily and it shows. This was her yesterday. This is a picture I just took of her, after getting her braces put on. Now, having said that she is gifted and talented, I should ammend this post to tell you the following. She just got home
At the risk of sounding to coarse. Don't be such a cry baby! In a little while you will be wondering where did the time go. My advise is: Treat them like adults. They will like that until they don't like it anymore. Enjoy your time with them it's short.
ReplyDeleteI've tried treating them like adults but it's not worked. Apparently all of them are the same so I pity the planet in 10 years.
ReplyDeleteYou can't treat them like adults and expect what you want when you want it. What you should expect is a prepared adult in 10 years. If they are not prepared it will not be their fault. "Green and clean my friend... Green and clean..."
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ReplyDeleteUmmmm I think the answer is, without teenagers eventually there would be no adults.
Thats it...
That and hope that there will come a day that you are happy they are your kids again!
Ok, I'm not entirely unhappy with my children. It's just that this morning I had some issues with my oldest daughter.
ReplyDeleteWe're good now. I should learn not to blog when I'm frustrated.
Oh, and anonymous? My blog no longer accepts posts from anonyymous. You will have to out yourself.
Pammy baby, I bet you were a gorgeous teenager too.
ReplyDeleteI always think about the stages we all go through - it's interesting to watch the perspective change as we get older. And remember back to being a teenager and what was important to us then.
God, I can be a sensible but very annoying sort of a chap can't I.
I was a really nasty adolescent, from the moment I was thirteen until the moment I stopped being nineteen. Just horrendous. Think Kevin, only much worse.
ReplyDeleteAre they really necessary? Can't they just all be shipped off to a camp somewhere? Think of all the rubbish music we'd be able to do without!
Tommy, you're sensible in a cute way.
ReplyDeleteKrusty, I don't really want to ship them off. I still love and adore them. It's just that yesterday my oldest was PMSing and taking it out on me and I wasn't really in the mood to be talked back to. Ok, I'm never in the mood for that.
All is well now. She apologized and this morning was much better.