Another week, another new adventure. The girls decided to skip school yesterday, but not really sure why. Summer has health issues so if she's not in class, the school calls me. She knows that because it has already happened once this year. So, yesterday she decided to skip again and pull her sister out of class with her. Needless to say, an hour into their little adventure I received a phone call from the school. I called them, made them go back to school; so their "fun-filled" afternoon was spent in the principal's office and loss of car priviledges.
I hope I'm not scaring all of you with young or no children. This is however, a bit of advice to you. Enjoy your little ones now. Spend every minute you can with them; do every activity that time allows, because they grow up so fast. Before you know it, their friends become their main focus and family time becomes less and less of a priority to them. It's all a part of life, but this is the most difficult time that I have had to adapt to.
Sharon, I have 4 kids my oldest is almost 14 years old and my youngest is 13 months old. I am trying to enjoy the time with my little kids. You are correct they do grow so fast. My oldest will start high school next year and I am not looking forward to it. He is already starting to think he knows more than I do and that is friends are more important then his family and that hurts me. He was always such a sweet little boy, always giving hugs and kisses now he wont have no part of it. Im sure he will try to skip school sooner or later. I hope that I am prepared for it. Thanks for advice. Great post.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the reminder, I am trying to hang on with the teens fast approaching. I also remember being on their end of it and skipping school, with my mother sitting in the principal's office when I was called in on what I thought I was getting away with. Oh, how naive I was, and how quickly we learn adults aren't as stupid as we sometimes thought they were. Your daughters will figure this out too.
ReplyDeleteYou are a great mother. They will grow out of this and find out what and who is important, and then come back to you and family time before you know it.