Gumpslilqtpie
Living the DREAM!!!
Member since 7/06 2646 total posts
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Kimmer
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Mean Mothers (Long)
One of my students gave this to me this morning:
Mean Moms
Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my mean mom told me: I loved you enough…to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home. I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep. I loved you enough to stand over you while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken you 15 minutes. I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in my eyes. Children must learn that their parents aren’t perfect. I loved you enough to let you assume responsibility for your actions even when the punishments were so harsh that they broke my heart. Most of all I loved you enough to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it. Those were the most difficult battles of all. I’m glad I won them, because in the end you won too. And someday when your children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.
Was your mom mean? I know mine was. We had the meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast. When others had Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what the other kids were eating. She insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You’d think we were convicts in a prison! She had to know who our friends were, what we were doing with them, and where we were doing it.
She even had the nerve to break child labor laws and make us work! We had to wash the dishes, do our laundry, and learn how to cook, vacuum the floor, and make our beds. We had to do cruel jobs such as empty the trash. I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things to do.
She always insisted on us telling the truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time we were teenagers; she could our minds and had eyes in the back of her head. Then life was really tough! Mother wouldn’t let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up. They had to come up to the door so she could meet them. While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16. Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced. None of us have ever been arrested for shoplifting, vandalizing other peoples property, or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault!
Now that we have left home, we all are educated, honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean parents just like mom was. I think that is what’s wrong with the world today. It just doesn’t have enough mean moms!
PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE MEAN MOTHERS YOU KNOW! (AND THEIR KIDS)
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Tah-wee-ZAH
Kisses
Member since 5/05 15952 total posts
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Re: Mean Mothers (Long)
So true!!
After my mom died and my dad raised us alone I called him Stalin (of course not to his face).
Many more parents need to be "mean" these days. So many kids have little boundaries and well, we all see it in their behavior or lack there of.
Here's to mean mommies and daddies
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vegalady
Love my family
Member since 6/06 4546 total posts
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SNV
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Re: Mean Mothers (Long)
This is a great piece of text. Parents need to be more strict. Children today are just so out of hand. If you cuddle and cradle them all their life they wont know how to handle themselves as adults. MY MIL was very strict with DH when he was a kid. And he has turned out to be one of the most intelligent, dedicated and hardworking men I know.
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