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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 719420" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Acceptance is the key to sobriety and I think we parents need to learn it, too. I complimented my daughter the other day about how calm she is all of the time. When I get frustrated about a traffic jam, my daughter just laughs and says there is nothing we can do about it. When I asked her how she does it, she told me that it was part of the twelve steps to not get upset about things she has no control over. She said if she couldn't do that, she would be high all of the time.</p><p></p><p>I thought about it later and realized it was something I had to work on, too. I let little things upset me rather than let them go. Parents of troubled loved ones need to learn to accept the fact that they can't change their children or control their bad choices. </p><p></p><p>Once I learned to accept that, my life truly changed for the better. Coincidently or not, so did my daughter's life.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 719420, member: 1967"] Acceptance is the key to sobriety and I think we parents need to learn it, too. I complimented my daughter the other day about how calm she is all of the time. When I get frustrated about a traffic jam, my daughter just laughs and says there is nothing we can do about it. When I asked her how she does it, she told me that it was part of the twelve steps to not get upset about things she has no control over. She said if she couldn't do that, she would be high all of the time. I thought about it later and realized it was something I had to work on, too. I let little things upset me rather than let them go. Parents of troubled loved ones need to learn to accept the fact that they can't change their children or control their bad choices. Once I learned to accept that, my life truly changed for the better. Coincidently or not, so did my daughter's life. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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