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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 626060" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>First of all, great posts. I am chuckling about the question "do kids live off the grid in the US?" My guess is very few. When do American kids have any passion about world issues? When did they start to care about things like the enviroment or enough to protest anything other than the farce of the small big city protests in parks about the upper 1%. That turned out to be mostly rich kids who wanted drugs and sex. American kids have no passion about life outside their own, especially difficult children. The last time American kids had any passion the way they do in Europe was during the Nam war and a lot of that was because THEIR butts were on the line, so to speak. So I would say most homeless difficult children in the US have no goals other than to get drugs and to spit in society's eye, but not to make it a better place...only because they don't do rules and too bad if you don't like it.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the inadvertent laugh. </p><p></p><p>Back to acceptance. I don't think it is about anyone except ourselves. For those of us with older difficult children who are already creeping up and beyond twenty-five to thirty, clearly only something profound in their lives will make them change and it isn't going to be if we let down our standards in our minds about how we feel about their lifestyles. I see acceptance very simply: just knowing that right now it is what it is..he is what he is. With my acceptance came any lingering longing for a big change. If it happens, I'll be one happy mom, but I no longer think it will. Rather than depressing me, it has made my life more peaceful. I stop looking for hope for change in every good day difficult child has, and he does have his good days, even good weeks. Then he implodes and I know it is going to happen and how *I* will handle it when it does happen. </p><p></p><p>I use my acceptance for the positives too though.</p><p></p><p>I accept that I got very lucky and married a great guy who will never leave us, loves us, and is a great father and hubby and who I love dearly. He has a great heart. I accept that Julie overcame a horrid younger years to become a very special and wonderful young woman and that her SO and her actually grew up together. It was neat to watch it. I accept that Sonic has defied every doctor of his very early years and has a life and a job and friends and is a neat, neat young man whom everyone loves. Best of all, he is happy. I accept that Jumper is an exceptional young adult for too many reasons to name. I accept that I had to work extra hard, and still do, to accomplish what some people can do without thinking, but I also accept how hard I worked to give myself the good life I have.</p><p></p><p>Acceptance is accepting the good and the bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 626060, member: 1550"] First of all, great posts. I am chuckling about the question "do kids live off the grid in the US?" My guess is very few. When do American kids have any passion about world issues? When did they start to care about things like the enviroment or enough to protest anything other than the farce of the small big city protests in parks about the upper 1%. That turned out to be mostly rich kids who wanted drugs and sex. American kids have no passion about life outside their own, especially difficult children. The last time American kids had any passion the way they do in Europe was during the Nam war and a lot of that was because THEIR butts were on the line, so to speak. So I would say most homeless difficult children in the US have no goals other than to get drugs and to spit in society's eye, but not to make it a better place...only because they don't do rules and too bad if you don't like it. Thanks for the inadvertent laugh. Back to acceptance. I don't think it is about anyone except ourselves. For those of us with older difficult children who are already creeping up and beyond twenty-five to thirty, clearly only something profound in their lives will make them change and it isn't going to be if we let down our standards in our minds about how we feel about their lifestyles. I see acceptance very simply: just knowing that right now it is what it is..he is what he is. With my acceptance came any lingering longing for a big change. If it happens, I'll be one happy mom, but I no longer think it will. Rather than depressing me, it has made my life more peaceful. I stop looking for hope for change in every good day difficult child has, and he does have his good days, even good weeks. Then he implodes and I know it is going to happen and how *I* will handle it when it does happen. I use my acceptance for the positives too though. I accept that I got very lucky and married a great guy who will never leave us, loves us, and is a great father and hubby and who I love dearly. He has a great heart. I accept that Julie overcame a horrid younger years to become a very special and wonderful young woman and that her SO and her actually grew up together. It was neat to watch it. I accept that Sonic has defied every doctor of his very early years and has a life and a job and friends and is a neat, neat young man whom everyone loves. Best of all, he is happy. I accept that Jumper is an exceptional young adult for too many reasons to name. I accept that I had to work extra hard, and still do, to accomplish what some people can do without thinking, but I also accept how hard I worked to give myself the good life I have. Acceptance is accepting the good and the bad. [/QUOTE]
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