Comments on: People With Perfect Children Are Perfect Parents

By: Kelly O'Keefe

Kelly O'Keefe — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:40:37 +0000

My hubby was not a reader as a kid or even as a teen. He still went to college and enjoyed all the learning. Currently, the guy has a pile of 10 books next to the bed. Rye will come to it when he needs it.
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By: Taz's Mama

Taz's Mama — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:48:46 +0000

i have this delusional vision in my head that when Taz is a few years older i’m going to read him the harry potter series at night before he goes to bed. it’s something i’ve been dying to do with my kids since the very first book was written and i read it. if i think about it too hard i come to realize that even if he can sit through a book being read out loud (which is questionable), his auditory processing might prevent him from understanding it, it might be too scary even at an older age, or like your son he may not be able to remember one chapter to the next. but. in my mind, i’m going to read harry potter to SOMEBODY. even if it’s myself.

By: HB

HB — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:27:29 +0000

It seems like there are always people ready to put someone else down. I’ve run into a couple of those people lately, too.

I don’t think a person has to enjoy reading. Everyone is different. Life would be pretty boring if we were all the same. It sounds like Rye is a special person and I love hearing about all of the things he does enjoy doing.

By: sherry

sherry — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:41:21 +0000

Hey, those perfect parents probably claim that their perfect children were potty trained at 12 months old> Guess what? They lie about that too. ANd really, how many times in life does success depend on not shitting and pissing in your pants before you can walk?

By: Stephany

Stephany — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:58:06 +0000

Hey what the H**, my daughter self-taught to read at age 4, by age 8 college level reading comprehension score age 29—by age 19 reading comprehension score 2nd grade level, she basically owned a library of books, and now she can barely look at a magazine….life is strange how things turn out. Perspective is hard to learn.

I had to stop reading Pioneer Woman, because her life appears so perfect, so la-di-dam-da with her cowboy, her kids, her book, her expensive book tour hotels, at a certain point, I realized all she is –is a business woman, who figured out how to make some good money and end up on QVC.

WE all have good kids, WE ARE good parents, WE have compassion because of what we have lived with our kids, and we do not have unattainable expectations placed on our kids, we accept them for who they are, where they are at TODAY.

Bill Gates never went to college.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:03:22 +0000

It’s a shitty lesson, and most people never have to learn it: we just are NOT that powerful. I’ve been on the receiving end of this same kind of thing more times than I can count. I’m sorry you caught their crap.

It’s so hard, isn’t it? It makes me feel like we can only talk to each other, like the world of SN needs is the only world where we can even hope to fit. That’s just wrong. We’re still people; our kids are still kids; we’re still parents.

And Carter can’t read yet at almost 8 years old. This, in a house FILLED with books, 2 parents who both read for several hours every day, a mom who writes every chance I get. We read to him from an early age, just like our other kids. And all our kids learned to read early, except Carter, because he’s different. Worse? No, never. But different. He doesn’t like to read, can’t sit still for books (or TV, computer games, puzzles, coloring, or anything else).

I try to remember that all those people who take credit for all their kids accomplishments? Will someday have to take blame for all their “failures.”

OK, sorry to rant. That’s one of my chronically raw nerves.