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 Re: Limitation of words
Author: Joy Living 
Date:   11-24-07 12:01



Dear Suen,

Coyote, Platypus and I have been discussing the joys of parenthood.

I want to say that from what I have experienced so far:

* Our children love us more than they themselves yet realize. They don't know yet what we mean to them. I pretended to not see or hear the rebuffs.

* The job of teenagers is to differentiate from us. Therefore what we know or offer is automatically rejected. They are doing what teenagers are supposed to do to develope self identity. They have to rebel against parents. This is normal. This is nature.

* Coyote & Platypus will see what responsible people they have raised as children go into twenties upward and are married.

* Parenthood has its ups and downs, grandparenthood is a sweeter place. Despite the fact that my children each married into large , warm families with a surfeit of family and supportive friends, when they each had a baby I was very much included as 'grandmother'. Children desire grandparents for their offspring. My grandchildren have other grandparents, yet I as a grandmother was and have been included and desired at their initiative. I did not know all this would happen when I was a parent. This is how it unfolded.

* Sometimes sons-in-law or daughters-in-law turn out to be nice people. This is a bonus.


FROM - A Mother and Grandmother
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