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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 498720" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">I too have one difficult and one relatively easy child. I have done everything I know to be a good mom. I don't believe in the blame game. I think we do our best at the moment. Sometimes are better than others. Many people try to throw the blame at us-I refuse to catch it! </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">As a teacher for a lot of years, I have seen just as many great kids come from nonresponsive parents as great kids come from great parents.( I always wonder how such a great kid makes it in such a horrible situation) I think we as parents are only one small part of the child rearing arena. When you look at children from birth, they come with temperaments. I think the fit of their temperament and the environments shape them as well. When they start school friends and classrooms have a lot of power as well. I think you are plain lucky to get an easy kid. (Of course there are extreme situations of child abuse etc... that don't fit here)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">The way they get along with their siblings and dad matters as well. What feedback keeps coming at them and how do they respond? When you look at greatness in this world-many of these people have had less than great upbringings. These people seem to be born with some resilience that many of our difficult children just dont have. I look at our own daughter and often ask, why she could not have weathered the horrible abuse she went through, like another local girl who got national attention and is now in college and has done so well? Temperament? Predisposition to addiction and mental illness?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">I think of all the mothers in the world, the mothers who come to this board (and like places), and day after day fight for their kids and their own sanity, we warrior moms deserve recognition, not blame.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 498720, member: 11001"] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]I too have one difficult and one relatively easy child. I have done everything I know to be a good mom. I don't believe in the blame game. I think we do our best at the moment. Sometimes are better than others. Many people try to throw the blame at us-I refuse to catch it! As a teacher for a lot of years, I have seen just as many great kids come from nonresponsive parents as great kids come from great parents.( I always wonder how such a great kid makes it in such a horrible situation) I think we as parents are only one small part of the child rearing arena. When you look at children from birth, they come with temperaments. I think the fit of their temperament and the environments shape them as well. When they start school friends and classrooms have a lot of power as well. I think you are plain lucky to get an easy kid. (Of course there are extreme situations of child abuse etc... that don't fit here) The way they get along with their siblings and dad matters as well. What feedback keeps coming at them and how do they respond? When you look at greatness in this world-many of these people have had less than great upbringings. These people seem to be born with some resilience that many of our difficult children just dont have. I look at our own daughter and often ask, why she could not have weathered the horrible abuse she went through, like another local girl who got national attention and is now in college and has done so well? Temperament? Predisposition to addiction and mental illness? I think of all the mothers in the world, the mothers who come to this board (and like places), and day after day fight for their kids and their own sanity, we warrior moms deserve recognition, not blame.[SIZE=1][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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