Toasted

by Linda Jackson 

Right around the time your kids gets their first pubic hair, they begin to think their mother doesn’t have a pea for a brain.  The “mother” job is done a long time before you’re ready or willing to accept it. 

When your kids criticize you, it means you’ve given them too much. Even if THEY are asking for more their SPIRIT is saying  (stop it) you’re crippling not helping.  Relationships need balance.  Too many imbalances force an unpleasant separation, an explosion like splitting an atom.

Doing more than your share is like pissing against the wind.  It comes back and hits you in the face.  When you resent it, that is your spirit saying, STOP IT. You're part of the problem. It is time to do less (not) more.   

At a certain point, your children only want to hear two things from you. II love you & I think you are doing great. If they’re not living with you or asking you for money, that’s all you need to say.  On the other hand if they are living with you and asking for money you need to say two things.  No and move out.  Or get a job. Working is a peek at (reality) for anyone still at home. NO graduate should be living at home without paying some rent. It does them a disservice to let them freeload.  Just save it for their first month’s rent when they move out.

I remember telling my son NOT to quit college. (So He did)  and wouldn’t speak to me for three years.    I told my daughter NOT to see some guy, so she married him.   Yes, I went to the wedding.  Now that she is divorced, so I tell her I like all her new boyfriends. 

I remember asking God why was this happening. The answer was ’because you don’t know when to stop” You need a mom ego alignment and nobody can smash an ego down like your kid not speaking to you.  Jesus gave me his son.  So I gave him mine.   Now we’re even. All three of my kids are  independent, doing good and are being good to me.

You and your kids have a library of each other inside of you.  You can’t be mad at each other, without feeling a war going on inside. At some point you have to make peace even if it means swallowing tongue and eating crow.  When your children are good, they are yours (when they are bad) they are Gods.  Put them in a “God fix it” box and LET GO.

If God can make the sun come up, he can take care of your kids (preferably) without any help from you. Just ask God to take your children to their highest good.   And remember
“A loaf of bread is done, along time before you smell it burning.”-----TOASTED
    

 

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