My baby's growing up!

[Lavender]

My baby is going to his first dance today! :( Wah!!!!

[Yvonne Belisle]

I'm crying with you my son was supossed to go to his a month ago but couldn't get a ride. :( They grow too fast!

[Lavender]

Yeah! Aren't they supposed to stay small forever??

[Faery-Wings]

Yeah, small enough to cuddle all of the time, but big enough to do their own laundry, hee hee! :D:D:D

Did your son have a good time at the dance Wildchild?

Chris

[Da Witch]

As I watch my daughter grow, I find that at each new stage of development I want to freeze time and keep her that way. BUT it can't happen. She's three years old and she's in pre-school and I find myself missing the litte 8 month old that used to curl up with momma during the day. I realize that children have to grow up and that we cannot stop them I just wish she still did some of the things she used to do.


I dread the first dance and the first date. I'm going to need to sit on the front porch with a baseball bat to scare away the guys.

[Margie]

*sigh* I was trying not to think about all of this. I was 19 when I had my now 3 year old-and just had my baby in May. I always had it in my head that I love them to death but when they got older I would have more "me" (read: selfish) time. :( Bad mommy. But you guys are making me regret thinking that.

[Lavender]

Heh! So true, Chryss! :p He didn't really care for the dance but still had a good time with his friends. Trick or Treating later made up for that.

He's still not too old for a mom-hug when his friends aren't around. :D

[Yvonne Belisle]

Don't feel guilty about wanting some mom downtime. We all need to make some time for ourselves so we can recharge and refresh. Children are the most wonderful things in the world to many of us but we can all admit it takes a lot of of you to be Mommy. Try to remember quantity of time is garbage it's the quality of the time spent that makes it have value. Special moments will pop up all over as they grow and as you grow they make the time spent no matter how much or how little magical and full of a lifetimes worth of wonderful memories.

[Margie]

:) Thanks Von. Don't know how you do it. Home ALL day with the kids (well aren't half of them at school?) Anyways-my 3 year old will be in school soon enough. :)

[Yvonne Belisle]

That's how I sleep lol

[AradiaSupernova]

hiya :)

I'm 16 but my Mom home schools me and my twin sister. She use to home school me and both of my sisters, but my youngest sister just went back to public school. When we first started, it was sad how many mothers said something along the lines of "I couldn't home school. I only send my kids to school every day to get rid of them for 6 hours" or some other saddening comment. I couldn't believe how many mothers actually thought of their children as annoying pests. :/

[Yvonne Belisle]

I tried home schooling but I am such a bad teacher when it comes to reading and writing that after one year home schooled my kids needed to be left back to catch up. I'm a good Mom but a bad reading teacher and I am there for my kids at all hours day or night that they need me. When they are at school in the morning is the only time i really get sleep I have a lovely unhealthy 4 hours a day. At night I clean all the stuff they took out during the day so that I can dedicate that time to them. Every person needs down time that is just for them but you are right there are parents out there that find thier children anoying but there are kids that find thier parents annoying too. It is a balance that must be found even my bathtime is not sacred my children if they need me or just want to talk will walk right in. I have great hope that if more younger people post in this forum that it will help those of us who are parents to relate to our children better. Being a parent is a hard job that takes a lot out of you sometimes we have to make choices we hate or we put aside our hopes dreams and desires for ourselves to support the hopes dreams and desires of our children.It's a fine balance and sometimes the line we walk is not so easy downtime can be the difference between a reasonable resolution or abuse. We all have breaking points kids adults parents and singles and we all need that quiet me time it doesn't make a person less simply because they need it. It makes us aware we are human and beings with thought and feelings that we are failable and make mistakes and it gives us time to reflect and perhaps to learn from things and be better people. :)

[AradiaSupernova]

I wasn't suggesting it was rude of parents to want down time. hehe. I'm saying its rude of people to say that the only reason they send their kids to school is to "get rid of them". I know about needing downtime. I'm a teenager with my Mother as my school teacher. It gets VERY annoying being around my Mom constantly, but she's a cool person and not like "normal" Moms. I agree with you on the point on more younger people contributing to this board. It would definately be interesting to see some ppl my own age around here :)

[Yvonne Belisle]

We get a few that will brave this forum I think it belongs to anyone who is or has ever been a kid wether we have them ourselves or not. Each day we deal with people of various ages and in some ways we are a family. Some branches don't speak to each other some hate each other some support each other some love each other.......it goes on you find the same basic foundations in friendship and work as you do in a family it's all part of coexisting together. :)