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Parents And Children.

The finest line between the too is love. It can be a struggles raising children and it can be beautiful at the same time. I have two daughters and trying to remember what I was like as a teen girls is hard and easy at the same time. Try to return to that level of thinking and try to reach deep inside my memories to understand how they are feeling and what they are going through. When you try to have an adult conversation with them they say it's a "lecture" it can't just be information maybe info they mite need. For them it's we are trying to tell what to do, and we are, but as parents we have to, thats our right! Mothers and fathers are not oblivious to what is going on. We have been in those same shoes and they hurt us just as bad as when we had them on. So listen.

One thing I don't think children realize is that parents are not just Moms and Dads they are people first. We miss up once in a while, We fix what we can and hopefully we learn a thing or two and we move on, to the next moment. We tell our kids, we don't want you to make the same mistake that we did, there response is to say "I'm not you",. But if we let our kids do what they want; our fear is that they mite end up becoming us. Making the very same mistakes we made and it scares the hell out of us. We want to guide them to became better people, so they can be happy and fulfilled. So they in turn can have kids of they own to love and lecture.

Kids today have it harder then we ever did as kids. They not only have peer pressure from friends and school, they also have media pressure like images of famous people like J.LO and the hole, you have to look and be perfect club. You have to wear this kind of pant or this kind of shirt. Because if you don't then you are ether poor and we don't like you our have know fashion sense. I would really like to know when this became law, when looking a certain way was more important then love and friendship. I try to understand that this is part of growing up in 2007, but its not easy.

But on that same note we as parents have to try to keep our kids focused on what is important, so they can survive on there own when the time is right. Just like our parents did with us and just like there parents did with them, and so on. Kids today are I think, the rudest generation so far. I wonder if it's our fault as there parents for letting them speak that way or is it something else. I can't have anymore kids and I'm glade fro that now, because I think it's only going to get harder.

Bottom line is you love your children as much as you possibly can. Hope and pray that when it really counts; they have heard what you've said and make the right choices. I love my girls and I believe in them, thats the best I can do for them, is TRUST them.

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