Raising Tweens
I am finding that I am faced with new challenges everyday. I try my hardest to empathize with my children and their plights and also with my friends that are raising children. I have lot's of friends who are just starting their families and they speak of these terrible twos and trying threes and all those other toddler behaviours that can try a parent's patience. I wish I could have those days back again, I really do. Raising tweens and teenagers is a challenge that I am not enjoying. My tween and I I love my child and he's a good kid, he's polite, he's caring and he's funny. I don't always get his humour but he is a funny child. He does not cause me grief at home, it's a challenge to get him to do his school work sometimes, but he's smart and does his homework most of the time without me having to harrass him. The troubles I am having are from outside variables. He came to me this morning and told me that he's been feeling...