I LOVED YOU ENOUGH.........

[Marty]

This is one of my favorites that I had in my files I wanted to share: It hits pretty close to home for me.

I Loved You Enough

Some day when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them:

I loved you enough to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home.

I loved you enough to insist that you save your money and buy a bike for yourself even though we could afford to buy one for you.

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep.

I loved you enough to make you take a Milky Way back to the drugstore (with a bite out of it) and tell the clerk, "I stole this yesterday and want to pay for it."

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that would have taken 15 minutes.

I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment and tears in my eyes. Children must learn that their parents aren't perfect.

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.

But most of all, I loved you enough to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it. Those were the most difficult battles of all. I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.

Erma Bombeck

 

[PaintedPromiseRanch]

Amen Marty!! nice to see Erma's wisdom again. not long ago my daughter told me that lots of her friends don't like their parents but she always tells them her mom is cool - even though it seems to me that i am always on her case! sure made me feel good!

she also told me the kids at school were offering her drugs and she told them no, she asked me why they would want to do that stuff, and said she gets her "high" from riding her horse... i told her she was very lucky, most of those kids don't have anything they really care about, just TV and video games, and if they had a horse maybe they wouldn't be doing drugs.

 

[JO~*]

You picked a perfect time to post that one Marty.

Tonight my daughter was really upset with me for not letting her go to a school dance.

Two weeks ago she got in trouble for yelling at me and for punishment I told her she could not go to the next dance. Over the past week she has done all kinds of stuff to earn back that dance, but all the while I told her she was not going no matter what. It broke my heart to she her cry so much but I stuck to my guns

 

[Voodoo]

Marty thank you so much for sharing that

: . The older I get (23 now) the more I see the truth in those words. I see so many of the times when I learned a hard (or what I thought was hard) lesson my parents could have prevented me from it, but I would have done it again and again, but by them letting me learn the hard way I learned the first time. Then there were the times when I thought they were standing in the way of "progress" when they were really blocking my path to the cliff I couldn't see. I know I'm still young and dumb, but I'm getting smarter and thank my lucky stars each day to have parents like mine

: Gotta go give them a hug and tell them I love them

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