What do you WANT your kids to say about YOU?!?

[Admin TiggerTeddie]

Okay, I am catching up on my magazines (backed-up big time since the holidays). Anyway, I was reading an article in More magazine where this woman was talking about how her mother was DIFFERENT to each of her daughters due to where she was in her life, circumstances, etc.

It got me thinking. What kind of mother would my daughter describe me as. And I came up with:

Silly
Never says, "NO" to others who need anything.
Fun
Loving
Smart
Over-reacting
Worry-wort
Caring
Always available
Helpful

Man, that is ONE scary list. I gotta work on some of them!!

[clueless]

Hi Dorothea, that is a tuff one") I have 2 ds's 16 and 13 and I think they would describe me as:

1. emotional
2. funny
3. very generous
4. loving
5. dependable
6. worry-wort
7. caring
8. nosey-the where are you going, who are you with, are you still with your girlfriend! All those questions boys would love to avoid!
9. goofy

I think I am pretty honest on how they would describe me! Well, if I was truly honest I think they would also describe me as:

1. worlds worst driver
2. panics-shouldnt he be home by now, wheres the school bus, call me when you get to work etc.
3. Not the smartest mom-their homework 11th and 7th grade-way over my head!!
4. neat freak-everthing has its happy little home-and of course I am the only one who puts everthing in its happy little home.

I'm sure theres more but thats all I can think of for now. I have to laugh while reading these because we always joke around about how we are, which is good. The bad driver one is funny. I cant back up worth crap and my ds13 goes to me one day, "mom, just get out of the car and let me back up. I can stay on the driveway!"

[Admin TiggerTeddie]

I think I am pretty honest on how they would describe me! Well, if I was truly honest I think they would also describe me as:

1. worlds worst driver
2. panics-shouldnt he be home by now, wheres the school bus, call me when you get to work etc.
3. Not the smartest mom-their homework 11th and 7th grade-way over my head!!
4. neat freak-everthing has its happy little home-and of course I am the only one who puts everthing in its happy little home.


OMG, I am TOTALLY #2 and #4!!! LOVE IT!!

[arubagirl]

hmmm not sure what the older ones will sya I will have to ask them... but today my 3 year old told me!!! While putting her in for her nap... she didnot want to sleep but I told her she had to lay down... she said thats ok mom your not a JERK!!! needless to say she learned real fast as what is nice and what is not nice to say to mom !!

[Admin shilton]

Mine will probably say I was always to stressed about little things. But I would like for them to say I taught them all the life lessons they needed to know to be good honest people.

[nurscindi]

My daughters favorite thing in the world to say is..

"I have good news and bad news. The good news mom, your not a butthead. The bad news....daddy is a butthead"

She's 4...can't help but laugh everytime she says it.

[raisinggracie]

All nice things!

[alishalea]

There is only one big thing that I want my kids to say about me. I want them to be able to say I was stable. Everything about my mother was always changing. Everything down to our church, our school, her mood, her hair, our house, our bedrooms, our diet, piano lessons one month, voice lessons the next, cheerleading for only half a year, even our furniture in the house moved on a monthly basis. I want my kids to be able to say, I always knew what to expect, and my mother was very stable. Of course I hope they will be able to say lots of other nice things too.

[clueless]

I loved everything all of you said:) Dorothea, I see you know where I'm coming from on #2 and #4-I love it too:D

Lisa

[My2Blessings]

This is a tough one for me... I believe I would want them to say:

1.) I am a Godly wife and mother
2.) Funny & Loving
3.) Kind toward others

I work so hard on keeping our house up and running, but honestly that is not what I want them to primarily remember about me.

[Lilly's Mommy]

I want them to say that I was "good enough".

[salQgal]

I want them to say:

She loved us with her whole being

She was funny and silly

Right now they tell me I'm beautiful, hopefully they'll always think so



Sal

[fostermom]

she said thats ok mom your not a JERK!!

ROFL! That is priceless!

[dmwinch]

I only care about them saying one thing, and that is that my mom loves me, and shows it in what she does (even if they don't always like what I do)

[jchaney121]

They're pretty small right now, but when they're grown, I hope that they think:

1. No matter what drama went on in our lives, my mom always loved and supported me.

2. She was always a lot of fun and laughed a lot.

3. I still want to spend time with her, and I want to be the kind of parent to my kids that she was to me.

I've been putting a lot of thought in to this over the last few years, since my own mother and I have always had a REALLY rough relationship.

[Admin Irock]

What do you WANT your kids to say about YOU?!?

Oh! I've been worried about what they're going to say to the A&E Biography interviewer since they've been born!!!:p

I only hope that they remember their childhood as one filled with love and a little spoiling.