Eh. It's just a few things I've learned. I was thinking that I need to put together a book of sorts of these sorts of things to give to the kids. It's the kind of stuff you mean to tell your children, but often forget to.
Everyone gets off track. It's easy. Near as easy is getting back on it. <3
I wonder when the age is that you can get this sort of stuff into their heads. I try so hard to teach this kind of stuff with both experience and with words, but it's like it's totally not sinking in. They are so determined to do things their own way. :/ It's frustrating that in books people write stuff like, "My mom always told me (wise advice)" but my kids don't seem to see me as a source of wisdom at all.
Oh hell, in my experience? Around 25-30. My mom constantly repeated "this too shall pass" to me growing up, but it took years and years and years for it to really sink in. Probably I was in my 30's or so before I truly had a clue what she meant. With every few years that pass I understand it even more, too.
Until then it's just repetition. I wouldn't mind making some shutterfly type books just for them full of them, though.
Honestly, I won't be here forever, and I want them to be able to see the things I've learned.
I figure, a parent say things. Lots. Over and over. Some of it sifts in and gets remembered. Most of it is meaningless. Sometimes bits float to the top and you remember that this was a thing you had been taught already by the people who raised you. Sometimes you don't remember at all. Writing them down just sort of helps affix them further.
Ha, I wonder if they'll give me a call, "Hey, mom? Remember that time you told me that ____? I figured out how true that was today!"
In the mean time, I'm really hoping for the "consider other people's feelings" to kick in. If they would finally listen to me about that, heck, 75% of the trouble they get into would go away.
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Until then it's just repetition. I wouldn't mind making some shutterfly type books just for them full of them, though.
Honestly, I won't be here forever, and I want them to be able to see the things I've learned.
I figure, a parent say things. Lots. Over and over. Some of it sifts in and gets remembered. Most of it is meaningless. Sometimes bits float to the top and you remember that this was a thing you had been taught already by the people who raised you. Sometimes you don't remember at all. Writing them down just sort of helps affix them further.
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In the mean time, I'm really hoping for the "consider other people's feelings" to kick in. If they would finally listen to me about that, heck, 75% of the trouble they get into would go away.
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