will they stop following me everywhere?
i know it will happen.
and one day i'll wish they would be around more.
i looked down at my feet while i was drying my hair.
i had started in the bathroom all by myself.
it's 75 degrees outside - you'd think they'd be outside!
but no, they are ALL at my feet in my bathroom...i'm tripping over them and moving them out of the way so that i can get in the cabinet. sawyer is eating the cords (!)
i really want to know.
anyone with grown kids?
in order to embrace this stage...i need to know how long i have...
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i am wondering at what age they can fix their own dinner so that on days where i feel horrible (similar thing to what you had last week), i don't have too. how many nights in a row are you allowed to feed your kids cold cereal before you become a "bad" mom.
I don't know the answer. I share your question! They are literally underfoot, all the time. Love their presence and that they want to be near their mommy. Annoying though that they are so often right in the way of where I am trying to be/go/do.
Honestly Courtney, Meghan is 11 going on 12 and she still follows me around like a puppy dog! Reads over my back on the computer, talks to me when I'm in the shower, and everything.
for real - i think there's something especially about the bathroom. moms aren't EVER allowed to be in there alone.
you got to dry your hair??!?!?!?!?!
:)
As the mom of three girls,27,23,and20 let me encourage you. Although my last child is still on the "launching pad", I can still relate to your crys for relief. Children "hang" on a mother for life, but it does get better. It will get easier - the middle ground (6-11)is usually a lot more peaceful and less demanding, but then puberty kicks in, and it's a ride! Most of my friends and I say the BIGGEST help was friends who could relate and listen. You're already doing that online but make sure you do it in your community too! Second, you must build in AWAY time (with husband, alone, and with friends). Kids do survive it even if they try to prove to you they can't. Third, it's mandatory to find ways to train your kids to leave you ALONE. Set down age appropriate times into their routine where Mom is not available. There is a respect that builds from this that you will appreciate later. I would always remind my girls I was a person who had needs too. They eventually "got it". Saved the best for last: PRAY. God can intervene though ways you never imagined. Now for the best training I ever gave that kept them away from me but helped me at the same time? Teach them to do their own laundry (start to finish) at 10. They'll want to and they're so used to it by 14 they don't argue! Hang in there. Those ahead of you are proud of you and praying for you. Thanks for doing the hardest job in the world! You're better at it than you think because you love them!
Are you serious?? There will actually come a day when they are not hanging on my knees all day long? You can't be serious...
this is embarrassing to admit, but when i'm home with all my sisters, we all still follow my mom to the bathroom to chat. :) my mom never complains about having us back home and underfoot - at least not to us. i'm guessing she's at the 'they're all gone, now what do i do?' stage.
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