| Title: | Parenting |
| Notice: | READ 1.27 BEFORE WRITING |
| Moderator: | CSC32::DUBOIS |
| Created: | Wed May 30 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 27 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1364 |
| Total number of notes: | 23848 |
Don't you just LOVE how kids can pick up on how we feel? Tonight I learned that my dad just had more surgery this morning (this is his fourth surgery in about 2 months). I was really sad, frustrated that I live so far away, feeling bad for him and mom, etc. Anyhow, my 3-year-old-in-9-days Kathryne looks at me and says, "You don't have your happy nose!" I sure didn't. Then she says, "I'll make you feel better" and she gave a few great big hugs! She made my day. Liz
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| 213.1 | don't worry, beeee happy | CLOSUS::HOE | Daddy, let's go camping! | Fri Aug 03 1990 03:42 | 6 |
So Kat is out of the twoer year in a few days? Hope that your dad will be ok like I already know he will be; what am I saying? Peace and give the birthday kid a hug for ,me. cal | |||||
| 213.2 | they do have their ways | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Fri Aug 03 1990 12:20 | 18 |
Yeah, it's wonderful how kids can perk us up. I was feeling
really down last weekend, mostly feeling like a failure because I
couldn't keep up my full-time career and full-time motherhood.
Going part time is definitely the right decision, but the change
hasn't been easy.
So I sat down to write something in my writing notebook, which I
hadn't picked up for a while -- and found Steven had been
scribbling in it. That was just about the last straw. I started
to get up to go really yell at him, when I saw that what he had
written was --
"I love you Mama" and a big red heart.
Everything seems much more worthwhile now.
--bonnie
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| 213.3 | It's True! | BSS::SHUTE | Fri Aug 03 1990 14:35 | 15 | |
Definitely. I have to get a tonsillectomy soon due to reoccurrent
tonsilitis. I explained to my children (ages 5 1/2 and 2) that "mama
will be going into the hospital for one day and will be in bed for a
few days." The 2-year old really doesn't comprehend but my 5-year old
says, "I'll take care of you, mama and I'll help Daddy around the house
(which she already does by vacuuming, cleaning the tubs, wiping down
glass, etc.). She's a great help to my husband and I. She really
worries about things that occur around her.
And not just a few months ago, my husband and I were going under huge
stress and my daughter started showing it at school with withdrawals.
That kicked us in the head that we weren't paying enough attention to
our children. We straightened up real quick. Now she is back to her
normal, cheerful self with her moments but normal growing up stuff.
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| 213.4 | Rx for the blues | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Fri Aug 03 1990 15:59 | 3 |
When I was going through some relationship blues lately, Alex came home
from kindergarten with a handmade present for me: "Momm's Happiness
Book." Pictures of rainbows and happy suns (sniff!) <:'D
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