My “I’m Doing it Right” Moment

Even at 14 the Diva is realizing this also. Earlier this year she and some of her friends got together and wrote a letter to their coach and the principle requesting several changes in the school pe program. She said she would never have thought of it had I not been railing on some goofy rant about feminism for 3 weeks.

I believe firmly it is our responsibility to act like adults around our kids (I never did baby talk either) and show them our interests in order to forward theirs. Did that make sense?

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Sounds like the engineer could have a stellar career in politics as well.

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Wow, I’m getting tears in my eyes.

My daughter’s fourteen and I doubt that moments coming up soon for me. But I have had conversations like that just as I did with my own flawed but intelligent parents. I know not so much my store of knowledge, but my quest for knowledge, my need to look at things critically, all those aspects that allowed me to make the most of the education provided and augment the lacks on my own, stem from conversations primarily with my father – who is now deceased.

But kudos not only to you for hearing it sooner than you suspected, but to your son for realizing it.

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That’s awesome. I’m smiling and he’s not even my kid!

(And what a sobering reminder…)

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Wow! What a proud moment that must have been for you. I can only hope that my boys say the same for me one day.

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That is a sweet reward. Doesn’t say much for a high school education though.

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Wonderful! I agree that High School isn’t much. It’s more a structure which contains hundreds of hormonal messes clamoring to “be” someone/thing even thought they don’t yet understand what that person/thing is. So many parents are involved now, trying to strong arm schools into banning books and teaching this and not teaching that, it’s a wonder our kids learn anything at all.

My parents aren’t super educated (nor am I – AT ALL, as a matter of fact! Unless a little film school & community college counts for anything. Didn’t think so) But we were always talking, dissecting things and free to voice our opinion, which was free to be shot down too. Thus I am bright, and I owe so much of it to my folks.

Keep up the good work, Mother.

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That must have felt like a great moment!!!

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I can honestly say I aspire to have one my kids tell me that some day. Although it does make me sit up and take more notice of the things they’re learning from me. (Today, they learned how to give really nasty evil eyes to their own children someday when they act up in the grocery store.)

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Whoa! An unsolicited, unexpected, totally non-woo compliment . . . from your son? Makes me cry.

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Ok that’s it. I’m packing up Mr. C and sending him to you to raise if you don’t mind. When he leaves this house, if I am allowed to continue raising him, he will have mastered sarcasm and that is about it!

What a lovely compliment though, I think I would have gotten all teary!

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That had to feel really good.

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come live with me. Teach my children! I agree though, they learn through us so much more, don’t they?

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Yeah, sometimes the teenagers let us know that we did okay. Ain’t it nice?

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I hope you relished the moment. Especially since he was no where near 30!

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we’re not there yet. But you’re on the 21 side of things and I’m only the age 15 almost 16. You give me hope.

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That’s the kind of compliment EVERY mother really wants to hear at some point. I don’t think I’ve ever paid it to my mother, but I should. I totally think the bulk of what our kids really learn comes from parents. And it’s such a tribute to you that he’s aware enough to realize it and speak it out loud. Well done!

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And here you were being so hard on yourself…

Seriously, though, that is a nice moment. Enjoy it, because as you always say…it might be another 10 years before you get another one!

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I have a daily question e-mail with my aunt and her 4 daughters every weekday. Not a day goes by that one or more of my cousins doesn’t get compared to her mother or my aunt to her mother. And 99% of it is complimentary. I love the “doing it right” moments I get to eavesdrop on, it gives me hope for the future. (Please forgive my horrible grammar/sentence structure!)

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greetings The Mother.

that story made me smile as well. secular education is necessary, but i always say, education first begins at home.

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