Thursday Thoughts: Parenting, Favorite Age, & Nates
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Today on Thursday Thoughts, let me share 5 points on, What I’ve learned about parenting…
1. IT’S NOT EASY. Surviving 2am feedings, baby barf, soiled diapers, teething, immunizations, and host of other toddler-hood adventures is a piece of cake – a real walk in the park. It’s the tween, and teen years that get yah. You have heard the expression, “Misery loves company”. That’s the personal invitation you’ll get when your kid hits 12.
- KIDS DO NOT COME WITH AN INSTRUCTION BOOK. What works for one, may not work for another. If it did, managing the lives of multiple children under one roof would not be like herding cats through a minefield.
3. PARENTS ARE NEVER RIGHT AND ALWAYS WRONG. That being said, this explains why kids don’t listen to parenting advice. Instead, they intentionally plunge headlong into one mistake after another like a speeding locomotive without breaks.
4. KIDS SUFFER MEMORY LOSS. Whenever life isn’t showering them with high-tech gadgets and new clothing, then you’re the world’s worst parent. They develop instantly a rare form of amnesia wiping all previous generous and selfless acts done for them by the parent(s).
5. THERE ARE ROSE PETALS AMONG THE THORNS. Despite the hard times, there are good times. Little arms that hug tightly, kisses on the cheek, giggles & joking, story time, baking cookies, helping hands, prom dances, Christmas through the eye of a child, or a sweet I love you at day’s end makes a parent’s heart sink wishing for one more blessed bundle.
This is a work-in-progress list of lessons learned over the years that I hope to expand upon from time to time, and no doubt will grow even more as the years move forward with adult children.
***What is one thing you’ve learned about parenting that you would like to share?***
I’m participating once again in Mama Kat’s Pretty Much World Famous writer’s workshop. From the bait, dangled before my this is the prompt I decided on… What is your favorite age? If you could stay that age forever, would you?
Women go through life feeling so uncertain about themselves. We look in the mirror and often don’t like what we see, or the way we feel about ourselves. My nose is too long. I’m too fat! My clothes are hideous! I’m not smart enough to do… You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all been in that same spot at one time or another. Maybe, some of you are still there and haven’t found the belief in yourself to move out of that mindset. This was precisely how I felt for years.
Once I hit 40, I thought I would feel like I was “over the hill”. Isn’t this what society teaches us? It used to anyhow until I heard someone say, “40 is the new 30”. My DH told me for years I look far younger than my years. I thought he was being kind as dutiful husband should be, but then shocked strangers learning my true age, remarked, “40? You look to be 20-something”.
It suddenly dawned on me after years of positive vibes from my own precious DH to see what he was saying was true. I am pretty….not Miss America pretty, even though DH swears that I’m prettier. I know I am not ugly…and while I don’t have the same 18-year body I once had, I knew I was in good shape considering I have given birth to 3… , and I’m not so stupid after years of constant research and learning. I have become a self-sufficient information gatherer on various topics making me a bit wiser than before.
What is my favorite age? It’s without a doubt, 40. I would be perfectly happy to be 40 forever!
***What would your favorite age be?***
Does your nates need a lift?
Is your nates too big, too flat, and need to be reshaped?
I bet you’ve used nates’ alternative many times, especially when dealing with the kids while exclaiming, “Get off your sorry nates butt and pick up your socks!”
To work your nates, you may want to try the Brazil Nates Butt Lift exercise routine, like me. There’s nothing worse on a woman than her nates sliding south, which will happen as you get older. Not that my nates are beyond hope. In fact, DH likes my nates. But, firming up my nates would be a nice to touch.
Hmmm, somehow nates doesn’t sound as effective in the demand to pick up socks or the exercise program to improve one’s backside. No wonder we use the other word instead.
**Nates is among a list of unusual words beginning with N**
For more Alphabe-Thursday letter “N” inspired homework, visit Miss Jenny and if you like blog hops, then consider playing Miss Amanda’s latest edition of ***Thursday Two Questions***.
