5 things I want my kids to know
This is a meme that I found about from browsing through Susan’s Blog; One-Woman Show. The original meme information is here. You need to list five things that you’d like your children to know before they grow up.
It’s something we think & talk about a lot here, so I suppose my answers may seem a little serious for some people. I take parenting very seriously, sometimes too seriously. I really have to try hard to relax and just let things flow a little.
- How to manage their finances ~ extremely important!
- How to do a really good verbal put-down ~ mainly because I’ve never been able to do it, and it can be really effective at times.
- How to stick with something despite setbacks ~ I believe that persistence is vital to get anywhere in life.
- How to have a discussion instead of an argument ~ Hubby & I don’t agree on everything, but we rarely scream and shout about it. Hopefully the kids will learn to communicate as well as we do someday, but for now they’re really good at the loud stuff!
- How to let things go when it’s not that important, and just have a good time.
I would add that I want them to know we love them more than life itself, but I think they already have a pretty good idea of that 