Farrah said her first word at 7 months! Austin, read the entire Magic Tree House series at the age of 5! Faith can do simple algebraic equations at the age of 6! Landen can throw a curve ball at the age of 2!
Are you feeling queasy yet? I bet!
I know I get that way when I hear other mom's go on and on about their child/babies "accomplishments." So you ask why do I brag so much on this blog ???
I know this blog is full of bragging and I'm sorry if it makes you sick to your stomach to read how smart Austin is or how well Faith plays the violin. I blog a lot about what my kids are doing in school and sports etc. I'm a proud parent, I can't help it. I know that can be very annoying! Trust me though I can fill a whole other blog about how Landen lifts his leg like a dog and pees on my friends front lawn or how Faith stuck gum under the seat of our new car. Stuff that they do that I am not so proud of. My kids are far from perfect! Landen alone would take up my whole day just writing about things he has done or destroyed. I just choose not to write about some of those things. I started this blog as a home school blog and to update grandparents on what we were doing throughout the year. Basically to show we were not just sitting around watching t.v. and that the kids are learning. I also look at it as a journal for me. I can look back and see what we have done and look at all the fun memories we have made.
My bragging in no means is designed purely to make other moms feel like failures. Or that their kids don't measure up. Will you feel better if I accompanied some of my bragging by saying, "We spent hundreds of dollars on private school the last couple years, so our kids would get a great start in education and after paying all that money we should see results." or "We send the kids to the best violin teacher around and spend a lot of time practicing, so they better know what their doing."
I try to blog by providing carefully selected details and screening out the not-so-impressive ones. So if you think by my writing we are this perfect family and I as a mom think my kids are just wonderful it's probably because I just so happen to leave out some minor misbehavior.
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I think this is the perfect place to come to brag about your kids. You work hard every single day to give them a good life and teach them morals and values.
There are so many people who are so critical and expect too much from their children, or worse, they are too self involved to know what their children are doing.
You brag about the right things, their compassion, their effort, their desire to learn and help others, their dedication to living a christian life, not material things, or superficial things.
I don't think you have ever come off in any other way, and neither has the rest of your family. They are wonderful children and you are a wonderful mommy for loving them so much.
Well, I certainly appreciate the disclosure! Phew! You mean, you're not perfect, and neither are your kids?! hee hee! Now I know I'm in good company! :)
And you haven't made me barf ... maybe a teeny bit jealous (you've set the bar high, girl!) ...
I say, brag away!!
Well, I certainly appreciate the disclosure! Phew! You mean, you're not perfect, and neither are your kids?! hee hee! Now I know I'm in good company! :)
And you haven't made me barf ... maybe a teeny bit jealous (you've set the bar high, girl!) ...
I say, brag away!!
You are just trying to make the rest of us feel better. You kids are perfect! They deserve to be bragged about and often. I agree with zeb4missy that there are too many families that don't care as much about their children as you do about yours. Keep raising yours the way you do. Keep bragging about how amazing they are. Yes you do set the bar high for the rest of us, and that is how it should be. What a wonderful thing to inspire in others, to love their children more and to spend more time with them amazing in their wonderful talents, even if it is peeing on your neighbors lawn. Hey, he is an original. I love your family and your blogs, please don't change them.
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