Ha! Two Years Later...

WOW! I really should start updating my posts... almost 2 years!  Going from a full time student to a full time "sitting behind a desk," and still being a full time mom and wife... updating my Blogger, wasn't really on my schedule. Again, neither is facebooking, but I seem to do that all the time.  Now that I am working part time, life has sure slowed down 20 mph for me!

SO, I have a lot to "blog" about!

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My daughter is now 11 years old.  Yes, the fun "pre-teen" age.  I don't know what boys are like at this age, but let me tell you, sometimes I wish girls came with a manual.  The scary part is sometimes, I see a little of me in her and then I think, "how is this possible?! Nowhere in my biology class did I learn that throwing a fit about cleaning your room, worrying about your hair, or talking back to your mom was encrypted in our genetic coding."  Of course, these are learned behaviors, but you get where I am coming from.  We don't have to talk about where or who she learned it from (as I laugh to myself).

Pre-teen girls, they can become a challenge for any parent.  We just have to remember, we were warned.  The "one day you will have a daughter and she will be just like you," haunts me all the time (curse whoever said that to me. Haha!)!

Then again, there are more pros than cons about having a pre-teen daughter.  She's my wonderful and beautiful girl.  Smart, funny, athletic, and she never gives up on whatever it is she is trying to accomplish.  She's just my easy going girl.  Sometimes I feel I learn a lot more from her than I know it.

As a parent, we may try too hard to understand our kids.  It is frustrating because we just don't "get it."  I don't think we are suppose to "get it."  Kids will be kids.  They do things we don't like and they do things we may never know why they do it... and they WILL act the way they do because we don't like it.  Something I do know is, we should look at ourselves.  Don't look at what you are doing wrong because it will just drive you crazy.  We hardly see ourselves doing anything wrong.  Besides, you can't change what you just did, you have to figure out what you are going to do next.  As always, put yourself in the child's shoes.  Think about all your expectations you have put on your child and why it is expected of them.  Is it for you or is it for them?