We'll start the Mother's Day posts early this year! <g>
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I loved you enough...
Someday when my children are old enough to
understand the logic that motivates a parent,
I will tell them:
I loved you enough...
to ask where you were going,
with whom, and what time you would be home.
I loved you enough...
to insist that you save your
money and buy a bike for yourself even though we
could afford to buy one for you.
I loved you enough...
to be silent and let you
discover that you new best friend was a creep.
I loved you enough...
to make you go pay for the
bubble gum you had taken and tell the clerk, "I
stole this yesterday and want to pay for it."
I loved you enough...
to stand over you for two hours while you
cleaned your room, a job
that should have taken 15 minutes.
I loved you enough...
to let you see anger,
disappointment and tears in my eyes.
Children must learn that their parents aren't perfect.
I loved you enough...
to let you assume the
responsibility for your actions even when the
penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
But most of all, I loved you enough...
to say NO
when I knew you would hate me for it.
Those were the most difficult battles of all.
I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.
And someday when your children are old enough to
understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.............
Was your Mom mean?
I know mine was. We had the
meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids
ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal,
eggs, and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a
Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And
you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was
different from what other kids had, too. Mother
insisted on knowing where we were at all times.
You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She had to know who
our friends were, and what we were doing with them.
She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an
hour, we would be gone for an
hour or Less. We were ashamed to admit it, but she
had the nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work. We
had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to
cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash
and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie
awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.
She always insisted on us telling the truth the
whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. By the time we were
teenagers, she could read our minds. Then, life was
rally tough! Mother wouldn't let our friends just
honk the horn when they drove up. They had to
come up to the door so she could meet them.
While everyone else could date when they were 12 or
13, we had to wait until we were 16.
Because of our mother we missed out on lots of
things other kids experienced. None of us have ever
been caught shoplifting,
vandalizing other's property or ever
arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.
Now that we have left home, we are all educated,
honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean
parents just like Mom was.
I think that is what's wrong with the world today.
It just doesn't have enough mean moms.
PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE MEAN
MOTHERS YOU KNOW. |
