Country School

For Parents and Teens

Parents...do you ever feel like it is a never ending battle to try to keep your kids on the right track??  We have 7 children now and caring for them isn't the issue...it's keeping the wolves away.  It seems like where ever you turn there is something tempting or trapping for them.  Especially for my 4 oldest that range from 15 to 22.  At what point do you just solidify your knees to the carpet and pray for the best??  I'm watching one of our children go down a road that is just scaring me to death.  As a mother I want to jump in and fix everything.  However, I cannot continue to do that for the rest of their life.  ARG!  Please tell me this gets better?

Teens, please tell me that you listen to what your parents have to say.  Does it really go in one ear and out the other?  Do you realize how much we have invested in you and that we only want the very best for you?  My teen years were awful..just terrible.  I want better for all of our children.  Do you just not believe us when we tell you how bad it could be or do you just have to learn for yourselves?  I know what it is like to want to have friends and have fun.  But there comes a point when fun crosses the line and you put yourselves in dangerous positions.  Do you want us to step in and rescue you?  Or do you just want us to turn a blind eye and silently pray for you constantly??

Inquiring minds really, really, really want to know!

how I feel your pain

10:15, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 .. Posted by cindy

I have a 'wayward' older child as well. She is 24 and my heart just aches with the pain she causes herself. I also have two teens at home and it seems to me to that my words go in one ear and out the other but I continue to pray.. that IS all we can do huh?