Parenting

Hello, my Coffee Lovers,

Many of my readers, I can only assume are mostly parents if not, I apologize ahead of time. Today I think we should talk about parenting. I choose this subject because many of us parents had to deal with parent/teacher conferences in the last two weeks. I just came from my oldest conference, he is 15, a sophomore in High school. We all remember how High school was and how hard it was. I'm not gonna make it seem like I finished high school but I did go off to get my G.E.D and then went to college and yet I'm just in the tip of the iceberg for graduation, for my bachelor's degree, money does get in the way of that. I won't give up and my time will come when I walk down that aisle with my cap and gown and a diploma in my hand.

Why I mentioned parenting because most of us want our kids to succeed, in life as well in school. Just so life will treat them better then we have been treated  in our younger years. I want that for my kids so much. I want them to take education seriously. I feel like I did not get as much support as I wanted to for so many reasons. I guess thats why I am hard on my kids, wishing I had the support that my kids have from me. "Living through my kids" as people might say. My son sometimes feels overwhelmed with school even as my younger son too. The subjects have the same names, well some of them anyway but the work is more complicated.  I can't help my older son if I wanted to but I can show him I am there too root him on and try to learn what he is being taught even if I have to use Youtube.

As a parent when doing your job for your children, how do we know we are doing our best? There is no booklet for emotions and hardship. At least at my time and we think we know what we are doing but we must admit we don't. I want to say I'm the greatest mom but its so hard, so hard to let the children know I am serious about what they need to teach them because I want what's best for them. The generation now is so independent that they refuse to see that and they just want to be treated like an adult and nothing more. I did or I am doing what I can as a parent to the be what they need to survive in this cruel world but like a bird, we must let them fly on their own and hope when they jump off that branch that they soar like their lives rely on it.

Do I have advice for parenting? Maybe just one, love your kids and tell them its ok to fall because sometimes falling makes them get up and run for their dreams. Dreams make life worth the love, house and picket fence with their own children. Your children will thank you. One more thing tells them every day you love them because even if this generation pretends not to care they do. They need to know even if they are not perfect their parents love them.

Until next time, be as great a parent as an Amerinco!☕☕☕