1. Busy. Cow orkers visiting from four different states. Meetings. Trainings. Discussions. A team-builder at the ancient bowling alley. I won our group with a score of 105. Such athleticism.
2. Cold. Clear and windy. I had to go out to my truck and it looked nice out so I just wore a t-shirt. Yeah, and pants and shoes too. It was in the low 40s with 17 mph winds. Brr. Wouldn’t mind so much if there was any precipitation. But what little snow is left up in the mountains is just blowing away.
3. Pissed. Mother in law arrived yesterday. When no one was home, “helped out” with a kitchen cleaning job. Consisted of throwing away the old brown bananas. The perfect, mushy bananas that her daughter had been saving to make banana bread for the school bake sale. No other option late at night. Nothing to take. Tears, frustration.
4. Proud / Worried. Band concert tonight, finals week, high score in trig, wrestling and scouts going well ... Other son depressed, no direction, no motivation. Polar opposites. When children are just like their parents, parents are clueless. I know what I should have heard when I was seventeen; no idea what my son needs to hear.
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5 comments:
I'm a bit confused. If your son is just like you, and you know what you needed to hear at his age...
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Well, he's hearing what I think I needed to hear, but I don't get any sense that it's what he needs to hear.
If your son is just like you, and you know what you needed to hear at his age...
Well, he's hearing what I think I needed to hear, but I don't get any sense that it's what he needs to hear.
I know that logic seems as if it should work to solve this type of problem - but as "they" say - it ain't that easy (is it?)
I have a daughter who is so much like me - and I struggle constantly to find the "right" words.
I'm sure he knows you love him - and that is probably the best gift you have given him.
Well, he's hearing what I think I needed to hear, but I don't get any sense that it's what he needs to hear.
My children are not like me. I see a bit of me here in this one, and a bit of me there in that one, but the whole of each of them is so alien to who I was growing up, so all I can do is be as reasonable a person as I can be with them because sometimes I feel as lost as they do.
I am trying to figure out how you ork cows.
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