rosepadrick

I recently read magazine article on how to rear the perfect child. The author claimed modern children have many choices to make and should be guided to make the right ones. Any mother knows children have had choices to make since the whole Cain and Able thing… Growing up in pre-air-conditioned Florida I had all kinds of choices to make. I could choose to go out side and play in the cool water with my younger brothers or stay inside complaining how hot and bored I was until my mother found...

62 years! Can that possibly be right?! Can we possibly have been married so long? We went from “Stop that, my Mom is watching!” to “Stop that, the grandkids are staring!” seemingly in the blink of an eye. Wasn’t it just a week ago we were rebelliously disagreeing with all the old fogy adults warning us we were too young to know what we wanted? Ignoring dire warnings that we never “Make It?” I can still feel my knees actually knocking and see my hand shaking so badly it took three tries to...

I recently read magazine article on how to rear the perfect child. The author claimed modern children have many choices to make and should be guided to make the right ones. Any mother knows children have had choices to make since the whole Cain and Able thing… Growing up in pre-air-conditioned Florida I had all kinds of choices to make. I could choose to go out side and play in the cool water with my younger brothers or stay inside complaining how hot and bored I was until my mother found...