I love my son. That’s undeniable. I also find him funny and cool. And, his empathy IQ is through the roof. With all that said, he is still a teenage 15 year year old boy. Lots of grunts, eye rolls, and snarky comments are in the air as well. As a mom, you learn to grin and bear it.
Today, I was ecstatic because not only did my son express gratitude in general, but he actually wrote out the word “thanks.” I”m super happy and over the moon because I feel that we have moved to a new level in our relationship.
For his first day of 10th grade, I left him ready-packed snacks on the kitchen counter with a note that wished him a great first day. He gets up at 5:46am, and thus, I feel a bit groggy and lack of motivation at that early hour. But I digress.
I actually woke up before he left and smothered him with kisses, wishing him luck. Which apparently he didn’t need. Another story for another day. After he left, I noticed he left me with a written response. He simply said, “Thanks.” But my heart was beyond warmed up. To me, that was a warm signal of his trust as he is growing up.
Categories: Children, family, identity, mental health, Psychology, women
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Reflects well on his “raisin’”
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Reciprocating Kindness Indeed That Will Get Ya Further
in the “Real World” of Being Human Than Any Other Way of Life
Indeed Although True Hehe Might Not Necessarily Bring Economic Success
As Kindness
May Become
The Number One
Currency of Life Over All ‘Things’
Hmm, the Apple Usually Falls Somewhat
Close to the Trees That Bear It Indeed a Nomadic
Desire to Swiftly Leave Next and Fly into New Frontiers May
Come Soon Dear Miriam 10th Grade i Surely Didn’t Have Much of A Nomadic
SPiRiT Then It’s What Happens When Both Empathic Feelings Senses Are
Tuned to the Max With the Rest of Feelings and Senses too So Hard to
Filter Out a Complex Environment Coming In Indeed So Yes If You
are Fortunate Enough to Have A Systemizing Mind And Stellar
IQ Standard As Such Ya Learn to Follow All the Rules Closely
And Make Nothing Yet Straight A’s To Stay on the Assigned
Choir Sheets of Life Surprisingly Yet Not Really Surprising
Considering Adherence to School Expectations and Rules
as i’ve Mentioned Before The School Changed the Policy
of the Teachers Nominating and Selecting Students
For the National Honor Society From Minimum
Class Age of Junior to Sophomore Just to Let
me and the Daughter of the Dean of Girls
Into That Honorable National Society
Yet Again Proof i Followed All the Rules
Dotted All the i’s Crossed All the T’s And surely
Didn’t Capitalize Words That Were Not the Standard
of the Queen’s English Tea of Grammar With SMiLES
And Here’s the ‘Thing’ While it’s Important to Follow All Local,
State, and Federal Laws to Stay Free It’s Really Hard to Really Become
Free if You Are
Afraid to Dance
And Sing Out of the
Parameters of What Has Come Before
For Instance is Using Poetic Forms of the
Past to Rule Your Creativity Actually Art Sure Somewhat
Yet Until Ya Find Your Voice of Soul to Dance and Sing Free You Are
Yet to Find
Those Nomadic
Wings i Suppose the
Family Story of my Grandfather
X-Catholic Irish Born Priest and
Noted Author of Last Century Writing
the Still Studied Book “Behind the Dictator’s”
Dining With Einstein in the Socialist Circles of
New York New York Provided at Least a Hint of
Potential for me
No Matter
How Far
Away in
A Land
of Mythology
i Was Seeded by
A Son of An Irish Catholic
Priest Who Spent 46 Years
in Law Enforcement and
Never Earned Even one Degree
Yet Perhaps He Needed Rules to Survive too…
Yet of Course the Grandfather PHD, etc, Priest Surely Broke
The Rules at age 36 Getting Woo’ed Out of the Pews by
A 17 Year-Old Spicy Cajun Girl With Mysterious Eyes
In Perry, FL Where
Idalia Last Visited
Oh Dear Lord
Without Rule
Breakers WHere
Would We Be No
Where NoWHeRE AT all..:)
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