 birdynumnums, posted
over a year ago
They have horses? That's something most kids would DREAM of! Lucky them! Seriously! I couldn't afford to pay for lessons for horses in the suburbs, even though my daughter, like most young girls, was horse mad.
It sounds like you are giving them a great life, Hun. You are giving them the things that money can't buy, lots of love and attention. Time is the only thing that they really crave, time with YOU. Those other things fill up a lot of the time that most kids should be spending with an actual adult, actually engaging each other in conversation, teaching and learning things together, experiencing things together, getting to know each other better and actually being a family.
That's what your child will remember.
And from where I live right now, most kids don't even walk to school anymore, let alone play outside, from fear of child abduction in the suburbs - to gang violence in the city.
And I think that the fact that Dad took them hunting is fantastic. Too many kids think that meat comes from a supermarket wrapped in plastic. It isn't a bad thing to let them experience the cycle of life and learn how to hunt humanely. (The last dinner party that I went to, the vegan couple told us all that we were all dinosaurs and that meat was the way of the future. I was wondering why we all had Cutting teeth instead of teeth like horse and camels. And, Funnily enough, he had just left a regular position in the umbrella organization in order to head a "Special Project". Talking about dinosaurs, that's the kiss of death in a career if the project turns out to be a dud.) (But I digress...) (Hey, I already had a Martini...)
I think that every parent wants to give their children everything that they didn't have growing up, and we confuse and judge our own ability to provide alongside of our parenting and come up lacking because we feel guilty - but that's not parenting!!!
In the end, All kids really need is you.
Posted on 22 October 2009 @ 1:51 (London time) - permalink
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