 Re: difficult private matter with our pre-teen | |
hmmm well 24 hours a day. I can't even keep tabs on my 18 month old for 24 hours a day and I am a stay at home mom. Do you sit in your child bedroom while they are sleeping? I snuck out of my house a few times in the middle of the night. Right out my bedroom window and right back in there before anyone knew. Was it wrong? sure but hey I was 16. Was it stupid and dangerous? absoulty, but again you cannot watch a child 24 hours a day.
Do you go to school with your child (of course if they are home schooled, then you do) but did you know that most high school kids ditch at least one day sometime in their high school days.
You remind me, just in your short post, of a friends mom in high school. She was crazy in a sense. Never let her children do anyhting! What happened, well my friend is now 29 years old does not have a good relationship with her mother because well frankly, her mother never trusted her.
Parents make mistakes, and if you haven't well then I should just bow down and call you the Lord of Parenting. Of course if you think you have never made a mistake, you will wke up from your illusion some day and realaize you are crazy. |