Comments on: Parent Bingo

By: steve sheinkopf

steve sheinkopf — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:57:06 +0000

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By: Peg Mulligan

Peg Mulligan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:16:33 +0000

If there's one thing I might share with my kids, when the time comes, is that there is often (not always, but often) a difference between making a living and making a life.

Happiness is either finding a way to do both at the same time, or if that's not possible, of finding a balance between the two.

Whatever path your son takes, it's great that so young, he has found his life's work. Here's a quotation from a sleeper book, MRS. DUNWOODY’S EXCELLENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOMEKEEPING (BY MIRIAM LUKEN, WARNER BOOKS, INC., 2003), on just that:

Finding Your Life’s Work, p. 214:
There is for each of us a place of perfect self-expression. It is a place in life that only we can fill, no one else will do, and we are happiest when we are in the center of it…Many of us have no idea what this perfect self-expression is, or we doubt that we are worthy of such a blessing. I believe that each person has some talent which is unfulfilled in some hidden area of his being—a talent waiting to be expressed or developed, even though many live their entire lives unaware of it. But it is there, for each of us, designed... to be our life’s work. This “life’s work” will be so completely absorbing and satisfying that it will seem more like play. Your soul will long for it.

By: Brenda Brown

Brenda Brown — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:32:02 +0000

How do you play the Parent Bingo? Dose anyone have instruction on the game?

By: The Franchise King

The Franchise King — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:29:08 +0000

Ann,
What have I told you about writing about stuff that makes me think back to when I was a kid? Huh? HUH!

Joel Libava

By: nike shox

nike shox — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:52:46 +0000

I read your profile today and it was so good to me.i feel you are the only one missing in my entire life so i decided to stop on and let you know that i am interested to be a friend first.When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

By: AJinNashville

AJinNashville — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:56:38 +0000

You forgot, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out!” (c/o Bill Cosby).

Wonderful, thought-provoking as always, Ann. Your son is lucky to have such a cool Mom! Merry Christmas!

By: chipcorrera

chipcorrera — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:25 +0000

True stuff. Funny how much time I spend thinking about Rachel's last year at home. And unfortunately, this time you can't just get through it and they'll be home again - except, of course, to do some laundry. On the other hand, I hope she makes it longer than she did a few years ago at camp.

Personally, I've been pushing for a little off the beaten path approach - no luck yet.

By: leighdurst

leighdurst — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:07:40 +0000

Love it. Ours is on a missions trip in India right now. Today is her 19th Birthday and I miss her so much it hurts. Out there – discovering the world and new cultures — taking on the world.

I can't believe she's actually turning into a grown up right before my eyes. I wish I had more years to gather her under my feathers and sit on her like a doting hen. But it's time for them to stretch their wings and legs, Annie.

And I love that quote about the rabbit. Love that's swift, intense and free.

By: Barb Chamberlain

Barb Chamberlain — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:01:29 +0000

I need to print out the card and give it to all the new parents I encounter.

I use "It's not a democracy" in place of "It's not a debate."

And there's the classic "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times...." (which I would use in place of the truly awful "I'll give you something to cry about"--why would a parent WANT to make his/her child cry?)

@BarbChamberlain

By: Karen D. Swim

Karen D. Swim — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:43:26 +0000

Ann, I had to laugh because all of those phrases bring back memories of my own parents. I have even uttered a few of those myself to nieces and nephews and then silently chuckled realizing I really had become my mother.