So proud of my kids because...

lollipopsarah

What a wonderful topic thankyou OP.
May I say how proud we are of our daughter who had our first grandchild 4 weeks ago, while she had to stay local for 2 days to recover from surgery, her little darling boy was rushed to another hospital.
Thankfully she is with him (luckily BLISS supply shared housing) and is being an amazing mum (I won't bore you with details)
Thankfully we can text and phone to keep in touch between visits so that helps - our little man is now 2lb 7oz and doing well at the moment.
Sorry gushing proud nansie.
xx

fedupnow

Old_Joe wrote: »

As an old octarian I am moved by these stories of the these young folk.
It offsets the many horror stories about the younger generation and they can be justifable proud of what they have/are, doing.

Sadly it is always the 'bad' side of our young that makes the papers. A few years ago my son and his friends used to go skateboarding at a set of steps where an old man used to sit watching them from his living room window. One day the old man wasn't there so they looked through the window and saw him lying on the floor. The lads went in and helped him up. They wanted to call an ambulance but the gent insisted he was fine but the lads called the old man's sister and stayed with him until said sister arrived and took over.
The boys were about 14 at the time and continued to check on him almost daily. They often went in and played cards with him, ran the odd errand to the shop etc.

A short while later, when a group of 'skateboarding youths' got a bad article in our local press, I went to the paper and told them this story hoping to offer a bit of balance. They sent a reporter to interview the old man but it never made the paper. Such a shame.

Not all of those noisy, scruffy, pants-around-the-backside young lads are looking for trouble - quite the opposite. I think most of our young people would welcome the opportunity to make their parents proud. It's just the general population don't trust them enough to open up opportunities to do so because of the bad press.

Sorry if this post wavers off topic but it's something I feel quite strongly about.

Naturally, I'm proud of all my children. They often put me to shame as I genuinely believe they are better/nicer/more generous hearted than me.

bagby

My 15 yr old son had bought his two stepsisters (38 and 34) a thorntons figure each from tips he had received from his paper round i said that would be enough but he wanted to buy them something else to make up to the money he had spent on his full sister! We must be doing something right even tho it doesn't always seem like that.

will.i.amnt

"Cmas"

Really?

No, just no. Stop it.

SunFlower73

They lost their nan to cancer a month ago after we all only found out she was ill 3 days before and they have coped amazingly well for 5 and 10 year old.

They have been so brave and mature way beyond their years and I'm very proud of them.

sheilavw

I was in Sainsbury;s last Thursday. A little girl about 3 years old was crying and screaming in her pushchair. Her Mum said, cannot believe you want more after all that stuff Santa's just brought you, then promptly wheeled her to toy aisle and said What do you want? and let her choose more toys

esmf73

My 8yr old is disabled and has SEN. He has pathalogical demand avoidance syndrome, on the autism spectrum, but can be very violent. I am proud and encouraged that he coped with our 4 visitors on Christmas Day, just grandparents and uncle and auntie, as well as coped with the excitement of opening presents not to mention the extra chocolate.

I am bursting with pride every day at how my 7 yr old son deals with his elder brothers behaviour and manages to understand what I can't! I love my boys, no matter that they make me pull my hair out!!!

bylromarha

stormbreaker wrote: »

Thank you for this thread. This is something I have wanted to shout about for long enough, but strangely sometimes think, I don't want to boast whilst other struggle with their offspring.

I guess all of us posting on this thread all have different struggles in life to a greater or lesser degree, whether with our kids or with the life that we're living.

However, I always want to be a person who counts their blessings rather than get dragged down into the mire life can be at times. And if others can lift me up too, then brilliant. Some wonderful kids being mentioned on here - really lifting my spirits. :T