She's growing up.Madison, that is. Everyday it's playing in makeup... talking about boys... talking on the phone... and yes, of course, these little high-heel babies. The ones she wears every chance she gets -- YIKES!!!
She's my baby. How can this be??? I brought her home from the hospital just the other day... right? I took her around that room... filled with all the things I had made for her.... the pillows, the crib bedding, the clouds on the ceiling, and all those tiny little diapers. How in the world can she be in fourth grade???
This morning I even heard the phrase I've been dreading... "But Mom... every girl in my class has a cooler coat... I can't wear this!" She was upset because her Northface was in the washer wet and I had to find her old coat... you know, the one with no name brand. YIKES again! I tried to tell her that her coat had nothing at all to do with being cool... cool is your attitude... people like you for you, not your coat. But I have a feeling in went in one ear and straight out the other.
Lord, help us... help us raise these girls to be exactly who they are... exactly who they need to be for themselves, not for others. How do I teach my children that when it took me so long to learn it??? And at times I think I'm still learning it. Why exactly don't they give us an instruction manual for raising kids? If anyone has one... Please let me borrow it!
7 comments:
Amen to that.... the world seems to spin so much faster than it did when we were young. I think music lyrics, television and magazines are what pushed this generation in to that desire to look and act "grown-upy" (is that a word). I wish we could shield them all from all of this and they would stay our little girls. Grab me a copy of that manual when you find it!
come on mom i'm 10(remember). By the way, love the stuff about ME!!!! Don't worry I am way cool.
Forget it Madison get to the real picture here. I am the cool one. Jacob of course is the weird one. Your the smart one. Speaking of Jacob here, Mom, your supposed to talk about Jacob the one who makes everyone laugh not Madison.Also he gives everyone joy.Thats what Jacob does the best to everyone he knows.
LOVE, your sissy Macy
Actually....there's a great book, His Girl. There's also a blog by this author. I'll send it to you -I think it's called virtue alert. Check it out.
I feel this way about Camryn and she's only two. Look me up on Facebook under Kimberly Graham Martin. Hopefully there's not as many. I also tried to add you and went through 25 pages before giving up. There was even one in her birthday suit. Pretty shocking profile pic, I'd say. I'll watch for your request!!
She IS growing up...your little girl is a TENager.
My, how times flies....she's really a sweetheart though...you should be proud!(:
A good advice, don't wash her coat at the morning if it means so much to her, I can understand her, brands are important at that age, I can't se any problem in washing it in the eavening then
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