Re: life IS good

Auralie, you're a wise woman.  Every soul has their own path to walk and their own destiny to follow.  It must be difficult for a parent to watch their child make what they consider mistakes and not interfere or judge unnecessarily.  I guess that's all part of the process.  But your advise is excellent and sound.  More power to you!!

Merry Christmas

Pam

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From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:10:09 EST

>In a message dated 12/25/2002 3:17:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>mhobertm@excite.com writes:
>
>> Janet:  Thanks for the kind words, but my real hope lies in my children and 
>> what kind of parents they will be some day...then I will be able to look 
>> back on my life and know how well I did at breaking the cycle...Every day I 
>> must remember that and do my best to bring up kids who will be good parents 
>> to my future grandchildren.  :-)
>> 
>> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>> 
>
>Please, please remember that no matter how hard you work at bringing up your 
>children, and I'm quite sure you do an excellent job of it, they may not 
>always turn out quite the way you wanted them to.  You must never blame 
>yourself if, as adults, they do not always adhere to what you have taught 
>them.  I know you may not believe this now, but tuck this away or future 
>reference  twenty years down the road.  I have a dear friend right now who is 
>having a really hard time accepting that her 40-year old daughter is behaving 
>in a very self-destructive way.  My friend keeps saying "What did I do 
>wrong?"  Even her other children try to reassure her that it is not what she 
>did - that the daughter is an adult who must take responsibility for her own 
>actions.  
>And then there's what my grandmother always used to say:  "The Bible says 
>that if you bring up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will 
>not depart from it, but it doesn't say anything about what he will do in the 
>meantime."  Auralie
>
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