Kids

Ok, here we are, my kids are just about grown, 24, 22, 19, 18... Last night I had a show and this young lady made me crazy.  She was talking about her 19 month old like she was 25 and I thought... CHILL let the baby be a baby...
OMGosh... you hear these young moms talking about the day to day life of a 1 year old. I really want to say "was I that goofy when my children were small?" I have to say NO.. did I miss out on something, all the little stuff? Am I alone thinking that it is silly to have a HUGE birthday bash for a 1 year old? or how about a graduation from Kindergarten?? WOW is all I can say .. WOW... What do these kids really have to look forward to? Am I just getting old, it seems that the young parents of today want everything so early... signing at 6 months so they can be "understood", graduation celebration from Kindergarten like they had really accomplished something big.. for Pete's sake they learned how to color in the lines and take a nap on command... REALLY???, I-Phone, I-Touch, computer / gaming systems at age 8, brand new sports car at 16. I ask again "What do they have to look forward to?" to work towards? I have a full time job and run a business, I don't have email or internet on my phone.  Am I missing something that a 10 year old needs to be able to stay in touch with the world?  I was totally blown away at Christmas and a mother is telling me how her 8 year old has to have a new IPhone because all of her friends have one.... REALLY???  Why??


When a child is given everything under the sun, so they can keep up with the friends how are they supposed to have a sense of accomplishment?  If they are given everything without anything expected in return.  I'd like to think my kids were not handed everything but they were given alot, we tried not to spoil them, not for any particular reason except we couldn't afford it. Did our parents think the same thing of us?


I was at a conferance on Tuesday and during a break there was a mom on the phone with I can only assume a child and every word out of this mom's mouth was "Oh that is SOOO great, I am so proud of you and Oh my goodness you are so smart and Oh you are so wonderful, I am so proud of you.. blah, blah, blah.. she sounded like an idiot... I was tempted to turn around and say "SERIOUSLY???"  What in the world could this child have done that was SOOOO AMAZING.. save a life? 


To look back now it seems that there are so many things that are going to happen in the next 20 years of that child’s life.. maybe I did all the stupid stuff and I just don't remember?? I know I pushed my children to be better and do better and now I look back and think, they were just babies, why do we want to rush things. 

Hug them, love on them, sit and talk, pray with them, teach them that there is soo much more in life than stuff and doing things... just be still and know... enjoy the time.  Maybe this is what those parents are doing by making such a big deal of the little things.