Has your child been abducted by aliens too!
How does it happen? How do you take a perfectly normal and wonderful child and somehow over night have her turn into a mouthy, unappreciative, self centered spoiled brat!
How does it happen? How do you take a perfectly normal and wonderful child and somehow over night have her turn into a mouthy, unappreciative, self centered spoiled brat! Did she get abducted by aliens who are secretly going to plot our destruction by replacing our wonderful little sweet hearts with ?Teenagers? so both their parents can go certifiably insane. It must be! Because my daughter is not the sweet little girl I knew for 13 years and I didn?t remember being such a nightmare for my mother must be the teen year?s amnesia disorder.
A word of warning to all of you moms and dads with pre-teens. It?s seems like an over night transformation, one day your baking the Nestles and drinking hot chocolate sobbing over Charlottes Web (one more time) and the next morning your unpleasantly surprised with a wicked attitude, loud music, weird cloths and a fresh vocabulary to match. Reality is that for most of us this didn?t happen completely over night and in my case it was going on behind my back for a while. And I thought I had eyes behind my head!
I was certain I would be a better parent than mine were and I had it all planned out. What I would do and what I wouldn?t do ect.. Up until the last few years I could point out every mistake my parents made with me and be determined to be better then them. Up until now I thought I was doing great. Right on track. I really had few complaints. I knew that they were turning out to be the wonderful little people I had hoped for. Not perfect, just balanced happy children. Now I find my self wondering if all those years of the perfectly planned mothering that I provided -the stories, movies, tickle contest you know those nights you wished for a hot bath but all 3 of them ended up with the stomach virus 3 nights in a row(what a mess) or your plans for a secret romantic night with hubby has gone down the tubes because one of them is having nightmares and the other can?t sleep alone and then oldest wakes up to see what going on and before you know it 5 am and there all passed out on your bed while your hanging on at the bottom of the bed. I always thought that they knew how much sacrifice and love I put into everyday and that they would automatically be immune to the typical teen disease. Boy was I wrong!
One thing I have learned is that eventually they are just like you and me but in little bodies and with much less experience.Thanks to my little alien I mean (sweet Teen) I have had my teen amnesia cured and am constantly given the pleasure of having a living re-enactment of most of my teenage tantrums right before my eyes. It?s like deja view but twisted! I know I have a few more years of mini nervous breakdowns to go thru but knowing me in a way I?ll be very sad to see her all grown up and on her own someday. Making mistakes and learning the lessons in life that we try to warn them about. Life is so weird. I was certain that there would be a moment in my life when I felt all grown up and I would have felt I had learned everything about life. I?m still waiting?I guess that?s not how it works. I think I think its safe to say that we truly never stop growing and going through the stages of life and each one has it?s good moments and bad moments and that for most of us wisdom is hind sight because life is an experience not just a function and if we don?t experience it we won?t function. I heard someone say once we should be born at 100 and die as a newborn. Do you think we would live differently having the wisdom or knowledge of a 100 year old? Maybe. Maybe not. One thing I do know is that in one way or another we never stop growing and learning as long as we live and someday my children will write about their children and I can sit back and smile and say. Been there done that. Have fun it?s worth it.
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About the Author
Christina has been a teacher/instructor in the Health Care Industry for 13 years. She moved in to corporate training and coaching for the last 3 years as well as internet and web business coaching and development most currently working with Americasmoms.com and InternetMoms.com
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