Today I’d like to share my thoughts on the following:
I’ve always wanted to be close to my children. Sometimes they make me see that I try TOO hard. As a mother, I know how important it is to be close to them, really get to know them, know about what they do, and how and why they are doing it.
When my daughter was about 15, she told me once about her friend’s mothers, how great they are, they are “hip”, just like her own friends are. At that time, I told her that I wasn´t her friend, and I did not want to be. I said that she had more than enough friends, and that I wanted to be her MOM, because there’s only one MOM, and we all need our Mom. I told her she could share with me her joy, her sadness, her yearnings, her life, and that as her Mom I would always listen, and we would get to know each other better every day.
Growing up as parents with our children is important. It is through them that we learn how to be parents. And every “teenager” in this world needs the love and guidance of his or her parents. We need to act responsibly, set down limits when needed, and grow with them, since it is through them that we learn to be parents. Each and every teenager in this world requires the love and guidance that only we can give them, acting responsibly, and being honest and coherent with them.
Now as a young lady 25 years old, my daughter told me how grateful she was that I was her mother. She said that she carried in her mind, but especially in her heart, every thing I said to her and all our chats when she was a teenager. “I realized that what I needed at that time was a mother, since I had enough friends.”
So please be a MOM or a DAD, be with them, they need you.
