Starting With Me

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Oh my Lord, Baron!!! I feel your pain! I wanted to rename my daughter "Linus" for that cloud that followed him! LOL! I have never seen someone that could do so many things wrong, attract the most unsavory people, and always at the most inopportune times! LOL!

What I learned to do was to look past that and find her strengths. I had to force myself to do it because the things she messed up were so bad, it was hard to see the forest through the trees! LOL!

She is an awesome person and very accomplished. If not for that, I would have stayed in bed with the covers pulled over my head! She had to find out EVERYTHING for herself. EVERYTHING!!!

Now I look at her and I know that if something is going to get done and get done right, she is the person to call. Just get out of the way in the mean time. LOL!

Look for his strengths and you will find that grand child that you know you raised and are raising. If you don't do that, it will harm a part of him and your relationship as he is developing. You don't want to look back on that part when he's finally in his twenties and you have much more in common than you ever dreamed. Ask me, because I know.

I wish I could have seen the end from the beginning. I would have reacted so much differently! It was so much pressure, I almost could not bear up through it!

Today, it's all good. She's the ugly duckling turned into a swan. God is good!

Praying for you!

Being in the middle of it sure is tough.

Sometimes it does make you feel like a complete failure as a parent.