The Jones' are your normal, healthy, happy, and well balanced family next door. Well, I am not Mrs.Jones. So don't worry about keeping up. I am a 40 something year old home schooling, Jewish, almost crunchy, special needs mom.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
An ill prepared parent
I am not writing everyday. I know it would help but the truth is I think about what I am should write in such detail that I don't feel up to writing after I am done thinking. But they say writing it is a better way to get it out or to release your burden. So I guess today I am thinking about how I am ill prepared to be a parent. I didn't have a good example so I don't know what I am doing. I spend every moment worried about them now and their future. I worry I will do this wrong and when they are older they will have a list of everything I did wrong. I am worried I will give them scars or I will be a great mom and they will be crushed when I die. I see that in people. Their mom dies and it breaks them and they carry that hurt everyday. I never want my kids to hurt. I never want them to cry or be sad over losing me. I can't control the future or how they will feel about their childhood and that worries me and breaks my heart. I cry and feel sick to my stomach most of the time over this. After I talk with my kids I worry about every word I said and replay every word over and over in my head. I make myself sick with this worry. I try to remember I am not G-d and I can't control how any one else sees the world or how they see me. Man, I hate that fact the most because I want to control that. I want to know what they think of their childhood and I want them to see it the way I want them to see it. I want them to think they were loved beyond measure because they are. I want them to always feel safe and loved at home with their family. I want them to feel lucky to have had such a great childhood. They never have to worry about going without, getting free food from G-d's pantry, getting their coat from the lost and found or getting donated clothes, like I did. The truth is that the boys, I don't worry about because I feel they will not look to closely at they childhood but my daughter is different. I worry she will not grow up knowing it was all for them. Every party, every trip, every thing I do is for them even the things I screw up and get wrong. I want her to know that I tried. Her mom tried even when she messed up, I was trying be a good mom. I don't know how to be a good mom and so I am walking around lost not knowing what to do but trying my best to do what is right. But who knows what "right" is. I feel like everyone knows what right is but me. I worry I will teach them morals that prepare them for a world that don't exist any more. The morals I grew up learning aren't around any more and I really don't like the new direction we are moving in as a society. So do I teach them the old morals that are out of date or teach them the new ones that I don't agree with. My husband says teach them what we believe and let them sort out what to keep and what to toss as they deal with the world. But I can't do that because I know some people hold on to believes they get from their parents no matter what. That sounds like a good thing but it isn't because the world changes a lot every 10-20 years and I don't want them being hated by society because of out dated believes I gave them. I can't control that and I can't control the future that they will grow up in but I want to so much it pains me. Man, I have a control issue.
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