It appears that I am a "normal" mom after all because us "normal" moms:
Give our kids chores.
Teaches our kids how to cook and actually make them do it.
Have our kids learn to do laundry and then have them help with it.
We don't always make a home cooked breakfast for the family.
Sometimes we give cereal for dinner.
Sometimes we don't cook at all.
We often sit doing our own thing while our kids do chores all around us.
Us "normal" moms also know that it's so much more work having our kids do chores but we also know that it's teaching them a valuable lesson so we give them those chores anyway.
Thanks to my sweet family and friends for helping me see how NORMAL I am.
7 years ago
3 comments:
I agree with all of the comments left on the other entry. You are doing a great job with your kids, if you are giving them chores and giving them more responsibilities than just keeping their room clean.
Speaking as a school teacher (cuz I am not a mom), I can see a difference in my students with parents that care and give their children responsibilities versus the parents that just let their children do whatever. I appreciate the parents that teach their children the value of work.
If normal means not giving children responsibilities, then I hope you are not normal. Children need responsibility!!
Hi Lora... It broke my heart to read your distress in the last post you wrote. I agreed with all of the comments from your readers, but I have a different take on the situation.
In Tooele, I silently admired and envied one of the mothers in my ward. She seemed to have it all together. Her kids were well behaved, she was PTA president and volunteered to do lots of different motherly things in her children's lives. She seemed to be just like the mother that your son wanted you to be. I watched and wished that I could be more like her and wondered why I couldn't seem to manage to do the things that I considered to be "normal" mom things.
Needless to say, I was absolutely shocked when she came up to me one day and told me how she wished she could be more like ME! WHAT!?!?!? After a very long talk, I came to understand her more and learned that she wanted to be what she saw as a "normal" mom.
A mother who could balance kids and all of their activities. A wife who could support her husband and all of his needs. A woman who has friendships and can handle the demands of being a good friend. A mother with a home and a healthy respect for all the hard work and delegation it takes to keep a clean and well running household. But the one thing that she thought, that kept her from being what she considered to be a "normal" mother, was she lacked a job.
More and more, you see that in today's day and age, the "normal" mothers of the world, are the ones that balance all of the above things (all of the things YOU do daily) AND work in or out of the home. So while you might question whether or not you are normal, it's actually the other mother who is ABNORMAL.
And after reading all the kind and supportive comments left here, I don't think I'm alone in thinking this. :) LOL
I love how kids try and pit us moms aginst one another (even if they don't know they are doing it) I think if your normal abnormal or just plain wierd, most of us moms are just trying our best. and I'm glad we have eachother to lift when we need it. :)
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