JUST BECAUSE I SAID SO!

Jean2 here. I often find myself parenting the old fashioned way. I jokingly tell my friends that I prefer to NOT parent by example but rather lecturing, preaching, judging and condemning! HA! I crack myself up! I am not quite that bad but I do expect better things for my children in all areas of their life. Don't we all? I used to battle EVERY battle and a friend of mine bought me the famous book..."Don't Sweat the Small Stuff!" A self help book that has good intentions but offered me no help whatsoever. If I want to worry about it-I will. If I want it done-I will demand it be done or do it myself. If something makes me happy -I want it done only that way. Life is better for me that way. I used to beat myself up about not thinking like MOST people and handling things differently but I am now in a happy place- the place God all wants us to be-ACCEPTANCE! Sure God wants us to grow in his ways and I get that. I am just saying that I accept ME for what I am AT THIS MOMENT...and I happen to like me. I wouldn't mind having ME as a mom. I am not so bad. I am not up for mother of the year but I do my job. I do let some things go that I notice is a BIGGY with some parents and I respect that. This is for the simple fact I have not grown up myself. Wide open statement for Jean1 there!LOL Anyway-for example (and there are many), music! I love love love my music. And my girls love music too. Some of the music today FLOORS me with the lyrics but I am always finding I enjoy the beat and then I find out what it is saying...UH OH! And I am not always strict enough about it. My girls know me and they know I have good intentions. They know I want them to be better than me. Sometimes my words speak louder than my actions with them. My girls are great teenagers. I am proud of them. If there is one thing they have learned from me-they do not judge others. I am proud of how they treat other people and each other (for the most part)-how when I tell them to do something-they do it without asking the infamous question that sends me OVER THE EDGE....WHY?? They simply do it. Because I no longer have to say...JUST BECAUSE I SAID SO!