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I love " When I was a kid" stories..... don't you?
I was talking to my Grandma Bates just the other day, as she was reliving her teen and new-mom years out loud with me. I was thinking how different it all was... but even in one generation, things can really change, especially with such dramatic differences in growing up....
When I was a teen, by my daughter's age(14), I was anything but straight-laced. I tried to put up a sort of front for my parents who may have seen the facade slip a bit here and there. I was boy crazy, a know it all, experimenting with sex, drugs, skipping school.....learning about the occult.....prideful, disobedient and defiant to the core. My parents would ground me or something and I would seethe... stomp to my room and cuss them.....turn up the heavy metal real loud. I was rebellious but more in a passive aggressive way, since I was treated very strictly, often physically. To me, my mother was an embarrassment in those difficult years... she wore BELL BOTTOMS and listened to OLD MUSIC for Pete's sake! I vividly recall shrinking down into my seat as we sat at a stoplight....while she had the windows open.... the dreaded oldies station blaring , tapping her foot on the brake making the station-wagon dance to the hideous rhythm..... praying that my friends would not witness this!
Trinity is so NOT LIKE ME , it is strange. She is like the purer, kinder, funner me that I never became... but she is also very much herself. She is helpful....generally loving, kind, happy to be with me, and not antagonistic. She isn't afraid of what anyone thinks of her.. and likes the music I like... she is the one with the windows down in the car singing along with me. She knows God, values her family and has FUN! She enjoys the company of her friends and even her brothers, like I never did. She is not even really interested in romantic relationships at the moment.
I had heard that when a daughter grows up, she becomes your friend, but I never really believed it could happen to me... after all, my mother and I still have trouble getting along though we live over 100 miles apart! Trinity is a great kid and I am so happy to have her here!
What else will she do differently? I wonder what her future holds. I think that she will be content in being herself... I can't picture her homeschooling, really... I expect that she will have a housefull of furbabies or a zoo...
Homeschooling can change more than just the education of an individual, it can change a whole family dynamic.
Thanks to http://chrisbrogan.com for the inspiration |
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