When my boys were somewhat innocent pre-middle schoolers, I told them that people use swear words because they were being lazy and couldn’t think of more creative vocabulary. I know, it’s a stretch, but I didn’t want my kids sounding like they were raised by the cast of Jersey Shore. I still flinch at the f word, but most teens don’t seem to think twice about using this particular adjective (or verb as the case may be). Maybe it’s being raised as the *bleep* you, reality tv generation that makes swearing no big deal. Ugh.
Hey, Click on over to my friend Deb’s blog, The HippieChick Chronicles for her latest wisdom on life’s twists and turns.
What’s your best advice for how to handle the unexpected?
There is no research study (yet) but I am pretty convinced after talking to my mom friends that A.D.D. is contagious and I have caught it from my kids. I totally take the blame for their fair skin, love of all things carb and penchant for spontaneous dancing at home, but finally I realize that this family thing is a two way street. I am a planner and a list maker by nature, so multi-tasking is pretty familiar territory. However my attention issues have surfaced over the past few years as the schedules, necessities and chauffeuring duties have piled on. I can often be heard wailing in the mornings, “God never intended me to have to be a brain to more than one person at a time!!” This generally elicits an eye roll from my son and a yawn from the dog.
Hello?
Anyone out there? I have taken a year’s sabbatical (which in hindsight wasn’t very restful or sabbatical-ish at all). But I missed this webworld of writing and connecting to other people, so here I am. I am linking up with two great mom bloggers and can’t wait to see what the year holds. Hope you will join me!
Heidi
* “Yippee Yi Yea – Cowgirl and Her Horse”
painting by Terri Kelly Moyers
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