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re: Dealing with your kids growing up so fast...
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:19 am to Tempratt
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:19 am to Tempratt
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drove by her old daycare yesterday and it really choked me up. Picking her up at the end of the day was such a bright part of my day.
I can still vividly picture putting my little girl in her car seat. She'll turn 20 this month. There's nothing better than the love we all feel for a kiddo. Pure true love. Put that little 6th grader on your knee later today and tell her.
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Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:25 am to Tempratt
This is not the thread I needed to be diving into this morning.....my little girl turned 2 last week. It's selfish but I just want time to slow down.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:33 am to Tempratt
Our daughter starts her senior year in a couple of weeks. Which means I have one year at most before she is long gone. She will be off to college and likely will be out of state. She is very academically driven so it is improbable she returns for more than holiday visits. Crushed to think she will never live with us again. I am savoring ever day . . .
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:34 am to Eric Stratton
She'll always be the love of your life. Remind yourself to tell her that every day before she goes to sleep. You'll never ever regret it.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:35 am to Tempratt
Our oldest just started 10th grade and is now driving. He was born two weeks late and it seems like yesterday we were waiting for him to show up.
When I was twenty, everyone told me time would fly by just like that. I thought they were full of shite, but they were right. I knew I was an adult when I could admit to myself that my dad was right about everything.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:35 am to Tempratt
Our daughter is due at the beginning of the year. Everyone keeps telling us that the long nights when they're a newborn seem long but they go by so fast and they'll be in high school in just a few weeks.
Hell, it seems like yesterday we found out we were pregnant and it's been 4 months ago.
Hell, it seems like yesterday we found out we were pregnant and it's been 4 months ago.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 10:59 am to danilo
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and some schools think these kids need hours of homework everyday
I'm convinced that a lot of teachers blame all of a kid's educational problems on their parents and set out to destroy our lives through homework.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:01 am to Clark W Griswold
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If you’re lucky you have them for about 18-20 years. The first half of that they need you and want you. The last half they need you but don’t want you (realistically and statistically). So enjoy every moment that first phase of their life while you can. Don’t work too much. If you get home around 5-6 you only get 3-4 hours a night with them during the week. I know guys who work till 7-8 and never see their kids. Find joy in whatever they love and involve yourself in everything they do.
Young parents, as an old guy with kids out of the house I think that this is very good advice that you should heed. Young kids are like this beautiful gift - maybe the best gift that you have ever been given - but the gift has an expiration date. That is probably a bad analogy because it is still great having adult kids... but they have their own lives so it is just not the same as when they are young and their lives revolve around you and the family dynamics. When I am on my death bed I do not believe that I will be remembering a brilliant presentation at work or a great round of golf, but I expect that I will see the joy in my son's face when we brought home a rescue puppy or one of my daughter's dance recitals that I watched with my parents. It goes lightning fast...
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:02 am to Tempratt
It seems like my kid just breezed through elementary school. It seems like yesterday my wife was having anxiety about her starting and she is about to start her last year.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:03 am to Tempratt
Take a lot of pictures. Spend as much time with them as you can. It's gone in a heartbeat.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:03 am to Tempratt
My wife and 7 YO daughter were listening to the song "one of the good ones" and halfway through my daughter told my wife "daddy is one of the good ones". It's tough knowing that's not entirely true and her being too innocent to realize it.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:05 am to Tempratt
My oldest starts Middle School on Friday. The pain is real.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:06 am to Tempratt
Just enjoy it. When my kids were growing up people would always say "oh that's a great age". They were all great and the time went by entirely too fast.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:20 am to Tempratt
It's unbelievable how quick it goes. My oldest grandson is 15 years old. He was with me all the time when he was little. I don't get to spend as much time anymore with him because sports and he has his own buddies and just growing up. He wrote me a hand written letter last year and it's something I'll hang onto the rest of my life.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:26 am to Henry Jones Jr
quote:I enjoyed taking night duty.
Everyone keeps telling us that the long nights when they're a newborn seem long but they go by so fast and they'll be in high school in just a few weeks.
It was a gift I could give my wife (to let her get some sleep).
And it was a gift I could give myself. All of that alone time, 1 on 1, when they needed me, and I was there for them.
Part of why the bonds with your kids is so strong is because of the sacrifice you give of yourself for them. Maybe I'm weird, but I always embraced it.
You're going to do it anyway. You might as well do it by choice, with love in your heart. And then, it doesn't really feel like a burden.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:30 am to Tempratt
The best you can hope to do to slow down time and maximize your time with them.... is to be Present!
Put the phone down. Turn the TV off. Let them help you with your chores. Or your tools.
Don't waste your life waiting for them to crawl, or walk, or talk, or for diapers to go away.
Don't trade saturday mornings where you park them in front of the TV while you go play golf, or do what you want.
In the end, you can't slow time... or really change how they're going to grow and interact with you.
You can only manage how you, yourself, act and how much time you spend with them. So, make the most of it.
Put the phone down. Turn the TV off. Let them help you with your chores. Or your tools.
Don't waste your life waiting for them to crawl, or walk, or talk, or for diapers to go away.
Don't trade saturday mornings where you park them in front of the TV while you go play golf, or do what you want.
In the end, you can't slow time... or really change how they're going to grow and interact with you.
You can only manage how you, yourself, act and how much time you spend with them. So, make the most of it.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 11:30 am to Tempratt
I was thinking about this today on my commute. There will be plenty of time to get non family stuff done when you’re not the center of their world. It won’t kill us to put things off until they reach that stage.
My kids want to spend every minute with their mom and I right now. I know that won’t be the case in the teen years. :(
My kids want to spend every minute with their mom and I right now. I know that won’t be the case in the teen years. :(
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:06 pm to Tempratt
My oldest is already asking me to play video games with him. While I like video games I already miss our made up games we would play in his room when he could barely walk. He would laugh so loud you could hear it through out the entire house.
This post was edited on 8/9/21 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:08 pm to concrete_tiger
Me too. crazy 8th grade already. 
Posted on 8/9/21 at 12:32 pm to FredBear
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Enjoy it while you can folks. My youngest just moved out a couple weeks ago and it hurt pretty bad.
I can definitely sympathize with you. My baby girl shipped out in May for the U.S. Navy. Only 18 and the house here sure feels so much more empty. Don't know when we will get to actually see her again. Thank goodness for Messenger Face Time. But it still ain't the same.
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