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Adults - but still children in our minds ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fran" data-source="post: 76626" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>gg, I respect the losses you sustained on your journey. I don't think we ever not pine for those milestones but truthfully there is an end product to parenting. Your teen parenting years were heartbreaking and there was a lot of loss. </p><p>Your difficult child is at 19, more responsible than easy child's at 19. </p><p>I'm saying that if she were still drowning in the negative self destructive behavior there would be reason to think of difficult child as a child. </p><p>I also feel loss to me as a parent or to what my child didn't get to experience but parenting seems to be a process that changes every step of the developmental scale. I hope I continue to change how I parent as they kids grow and their needs change. I can't go back to the way it way it was. Thank goodness. I can only look forward with some hope that parenting an adult child will be more wonderful than the past 10 to 15yrs. </p><p></p><p>I'm 52. My mom still feels a need to "show me" how to fold socks. She never did learn that "biting her tongue" thing. (this is said jokingly) She is a wonderfully loving, over bearing, knowing all things 80 yr old mother that I try to spend less than 5 days at a time with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fran, post: 76626, member: 3"] gg, I respect the losses you sustained on your journey. I don't think we ever not pine for those milestones but truthfully there is an end product to parenting. Your teen parenting years were heartbreaking and there was a lot of loss. Your difficult child is at 19, more responsible than easy child's at 19. I'm saying that if she were still drowning in the negative self destructive behavior there would be reason to think of difficult child as a child. I also feel loss to me as a parent or to what my child didn't get to experience but parenting seems to be a process that changes every step of the developmental scale. I hope I continue to change how I parent as they kids grow and their needs change. I can't go back to the way it way it was. Thank goodness. I can only look forward with some hope that parenting an adult child will be more wonderful than the past 10 to 15yrs. I'm 52. My mom still feels a need to "show me" how to fold socks. She never did learn that "biting her tongue" thing. (this is said jokingly) She is a wonderfully loving, over bearing, knowing all things 80 yr old mother that I try to spend less than 5 days at a time with. [/QUOTE]
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