Excellent And So True! Children NEED Their Parents Time!

[Cat Herder]

I guess that is what I am wrestling with too..my options as they stand. Such is life. I do enjoy my day, and when it is snowing like mad or freezing cold, I am THRILLED that I don't have to leave the house! There are lots of upsides. Maybe I have the beginning of empty nest syndrome...my oldest is going to be a Sr. next year. If there is one thing I could get my 55+ hour a week daycare parents to understand its this: They REALLY do grow up way too fast. It seems like just yesterday I was looking at this little baby thinking, "OH MY GOD! Who in the world thought it was OK for me to have a baby! What if I screw it up! OMG!!!!!!!" LOL! I was 28 and still totally freaked out! They are just the best things ever.

I hear you!!! I am constantly feeling like I am racing a clock... I had so many things I wanted to do with them, so many things I wanted to teach them.. I "only" have 6 more years in my mind to show them everything... I am so far behind....stress, stress, guilt, guilt...

Rational, NO...but do I feel it....OH, YEAH!!! I think they call it "Motherhood" ? ::

[AfterSchoolMom]

This is one of the main reasons why I work my rear end off during the school year and scrimp and save so that I can take the summer off. I LOVE having 11 straight weeks to spend with my kids. We can do anything we want, and I feel like I get to know them all over again. I've never understood the stay at home Moms in my neighborhood who complain in June that summer is coming - I ADORE spending time with my children, and I won't have them to myself for much longer!

[Cat Herder]

I have been thinking on this subject a lot, recently, as well.

My kids are teens and my being home is much more needed now that it was in their early years...

It seems many folks seem to miss this....

I have a heard of other teens in my home every weekend whose parents seem to have just forgotten their needs while they are out having their me time...

You should hear these kids talk, it DOES hurt them and they WILL remember it all....

Why was this edited? I have a HERD, as in cattle, not HEARD :: of teens in my home on the weekends... Sometimes 12-15 of them.....