Day Thirty One - Being a Good Parent

Today I'm Grateful for:

Today I'm grateful for being a good parent.

Yes, I can prove it. Our daughters Lizzie and Jam are both grown now, one with a bub on the way, but they constantly prove to me that we have been good parents. Just the other day, while Lizzie and I were out, an elderly lady was in distress. Lizzie made the necessary phone calls, and we helped her into her taxi and on the road back to her care centre. I didn't prod her to do it, she just did it as a matter of course. Like something that should just be done, no biggie. Now, if you know my eldest girl, you will know that she is forthright, honest, has a strong sense of what is right and wrong in the world, but not usually big on 'helping' others. Unless it is to organise them, make arrangements, get them looking nice, but strangers, not usually. She will help people she loves until she bleeds, but doesn't usually go out of her way to help strangers. If it had been Jam, I wouldn't have been surprised, she does go out of her way to help strangers constantly, probably why she is going into the community services industry. And why she will be successful at it.

It makes me proud to know that our girls will do the right thing, whether I am with them or not. That we have brought them up to have manners and consideration for others. I am also confident that they will pass this along to any children they have and that they in turn will one day be as proud to be their parents as we are proud to be theirs.

My point is, these are really good people we have brought up, they have grown into caring, kind, and decent women. And yes, today I am going to take the credit and give myself a pat on the back. Well done Julie, pat pat...

 I am also very grateful that I had such a great Mum to teach me how to be a great Mum. Thanks Mum

Kisses

Julie