| 4/29/2008 9:55:52 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| Tonight I went to see my daughter play her flute in the school band concert.
While watching her up on stage my heart overflowed with pride and my eyes swelled with tears.
She was amazing!! As were all the 6th graders.
I realized how grown up she is becoming and what a beautiful person she is inside and out!!
She has had to endure a chronic medical condition diagnosed since 18 mos. and needs 24/7 monitoring.
We have had to make many adjustments over the years to maintain her health but in all that time it has never
stopped her from achieving any goal or doing anything that her heart has set out to accomplish.
I've had to make sacrifices, but so has she and together we've been able to have a happy life.
 So I'd like to start a thread dedicated to our children!
What makes you proud, as a parent, of your sons and daughters!??!
What SPECIAL talents or characteristics do they possess that make you beam with pride?!?
Share with us your LOVE for the children that you've brought into this world and what it is about them
that makes them so special to you!
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| 4/29/2008 10:03:41 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
heyppl
Saint Louis, MO
age: 27
| Even though my child is a hell raiser in school he over comes that and makes great grades. Could not be prouder.
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| 4/29/2008 10:16:55 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
mommaloma
Searcy, AR
age: 34
| Defiantly, What a great thread!
 My oldest daughter also plays the flute. I am amazed by her talent. Two months after beginning to learn to play, she started learning to play by ear. She is a natural. She is also very energetic and outgoing.
My second daughter is a whiz kid. She has a photographic memory. She has always hung around adults at school and church. She didn't speak a word (other that mama, dada) until she was 3 years old, but when she did start, she spoke in complete, almost grammatically correct sentences.
My youngest daughter is so sensitive and caring. When she was 4 and her "boyfriend" broke up with her, she told me that she still would be his friend because she didn't want him to feel hurt like she had felt hurt. She also loves all creatures. She often comes home with frogs and crawfish, or hurt kittens.
My son, my youngest, is becoming very musical. He is only 5, but he can carry a tune better than a lot of adults. He is just finishing preschool, and I am so proud of the progress he has made over the last school year.
I am so blessed to have these wonderful people in my life!
[Edited 4/29/2008 10:18:03 PM]
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| 4/29/2008 10:27:50 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| Wow! Momma thanks for sharing. Sounds like your kids have a lot in common with my girl.
She too is very smart, caring, and compassionate. But like Heyppl child she can have her ornery side but
the positives outway the negatives 10 fold!!!
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| 4/29/2008 10:30:43 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
smilelaugh
Fremont, NE
age: 37
| Worked with my 5 yrold tonight on using a scissors, she refuses to use one at preschool. So we practiced alot tonight, with all kinds of lines drawn on construction paper. She really caught on.
I was so proud of her.
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| 4/29/2008 10:35:42 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| Sometimes Smile it's the smallest things that make us swell up with pride and love for them.
Everyday they embrace the world with a wonder and excitement as to what will they learn today or
new adventures that they can have!
The smallest of achievements can give the biggest rewards!
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| 4/29/2008 10:36:57 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
mommaloma
Searcy, AR
age: 34
| Oh, my kids are onrhy too! You ought to hear us walk into a grocery store, or any public place for that matter. You would think I just walked in with a bus load of kids, they are so loud!        
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| 4/29/2008 10:42:38 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| Bet you're NOT so proud of them then, huh?!?  
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| 4/29/2008 10:51:48 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
mommaloma
Searcy, AR
age: 34
| Eh, I'm used to it now. 
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| 4/29/2008 10:55:51 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| BTW ~ Momma I commend you on having 4 wonderful sounding kids!!!
That in itself is something to be very proud of!
Well G'night all! Gonna try going to sleep again! 
Hope I have better success this time!! 
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| 4/29/2008 11:19:44 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
mommaloma
Searcy, AR
age: 34
| Commendations and congratulations to you too, defiantly. I imagine that raising a chronically ill child is no easy task. But parenting is the most rewarding job you will ever experience.
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| 4/29/2008 11:28:48 PM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
qirki
San Francisco, CA
age: 62
| Is this for ladies only, or can a dad brag too? I have five kids, 4 guys and one girl. Raj, the oldest will be 32 this year and he writes educational software and games. He has not graduated college yet, but he keeps threatening to go back.
My daughter, Candice just turned 30 and graduated from USC in Filmic Writing. Getting into the USC Film School is like getting into Harvard Law School! She works for an internet company and reads scripts for a production company, while writing her own scripts.
JR, the middle guy, is in his second year of college after having done almost 7 years in the Army. He did 2 tours in Iraq, 1 tour in S. Korea, and a short tour in Egypt. He has quiet competence. If there is anything technical you need done, explain it and walk away knowing that it will be done with excellence.
Trev, just turned 24 and is a sergeant in the Army. He graduates from college May12th and becomes a 2nd Lt. that afternoon. I and my ex get to pin his bars on. I am excited! He was in the 82nd Air Borne and did a tour in Afghanistan, but now he will be going to the 1st. Armor Division.
Matt, the baby, is over 6' and over 200 pounds. He will graduate high school in June. He is kind of being pulled in a lot of directions. Because his 2 older brothers speak well of their military experience, he is considering that, while we have been speaking about going ahead and getting college out of the way. He is somewhat of a comedian. He tells puns that even I would not touch!
The only thing is, I don't have any grand kids yet, but that is ok, because none of them are married yet. But I am looking forward to spoiling my grand kids and getting even for any head aches my kids caused me. lol
Qirki
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| 4/30/2008 2:47:00 AM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| Thanks for sharing Qirki!!!  No doubt serving your country is something to be very proud of.
This thread is for everyone and anyone who adores the children in their lives!
So what do more of you feel makes you the proudest to have these precious gifts in your lives!??!
Do share!!!!!  
[Edited 4/30/2008 2:48:26 AM]
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| 4/30/2008 3:32:54 AM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
somewords
Juneau, AK
age: 88
| defiantone ~ I have talked with your daughter and she is a beautiful ray of sunshine. She has a heart as big as her momma.
Mine have become wonder-filled caring, kind, compassionate adults with families of their own.
Sebz
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| 4/30/2008 4:03:07 AM | Our Children ..... How do they make you proud? | |
defiantlyltr
Stroudsburg, PA
age: 46 online now!
| Thank you much for your kind words Sebz and my daughter feels the same for you!
It's a wonderful feeling when you know deep in your heart that you have done your best
to grow a child who is a chip off the 'ole block!! 
Your children are loving and caring in the way that they show their concern for you.
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