And if you’re a 10 yr old girl, I’m talking to you. Girls, if you let your cleavage show, boys and men are going to look. Soap box ahead…It was important for me to teach all of my kids how to dress appropriately and why. I just really feel that if we train up/teach our kids our core values, that they will take those values and add to them as adults on their own. Well, even as you grow older (while at home) you make many of your own decisions. Of course, that’s true, when we become adults and leave home, we get to make our own decisions. She did raise them with strong values, don’t get me wrong! It was just this one discussion that she and I had about how our girls dressed that always stuck with me. I think she felt that once her kids left, they’d do what they pleased any how. I felt that we, as parents, were in control of our kids lives and how they were raised so that when they were gone from our home, they’d still have the same core values and stick to them. She and I had differing opinions on what would happen to our kids in the future. When my girls were young, I had a fabulous roommate who had 4 girls! She was a single mom doing an amazing job. I started getting new ideas on how to parent my kids.įirst, I’d have to credit my faith as to changing my way of thinking and second, when I went through Growing Kids God’s Way I had an even more intentional way of parenting. Turned out I had completely different ideas on how to raise my kids now that I was an “adult”. You know when you’re 17 years old and you have the teenage angst that allows you to fool yourself into thinking that when YOU become a parent you’ll be so much cooler than your parents, and your kids will like you SO much better than you like yours? C’mon, I wasn’t the only one thinking I’d be the fun mom, the hipster mom, the mom with kids who were her bff…
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