Mean Moms
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Mean Moms
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> Someday when my children are old enough to
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> understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will
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> tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you
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> enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom,
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> and what time you would be home.
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> I loved you enough to be silent and let you
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> discover that your new best friend was a creep.
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> I loved you enough to make you go pay for the
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> bubble gum you had taken and tell the clerk, "I
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> stole this yesterday and want to pay for it."
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> I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours
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> while you cleaned your room, a job that should have
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> taken 15 minutes.
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> I loved you enough to let you see anger,
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> disappointment, and tears in my eyes. Children must
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> learn that their parents aren't perfect.
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> I loved you enough to let you assume the
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> responsibility for your actions even when the
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> penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
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> But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say
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> NO when I knew you would hate me for it.
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> Those were the most difficult battles of all. I'm
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> glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.
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> And someday when your children are old enough to
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> understand the logic that motivates parents, you
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> will tell them.
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> Was your Mom mean? I know mine was. We had the
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> meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids
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> ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal,
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> eggs, and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a
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> Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you
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> can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was
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> different from what other kids had, too.
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> Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all
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> times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She
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> had to know who our friends were, and what we were
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> doing with them. She insisted that if we said we
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> would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an
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> hour or less.
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> We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve
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> to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work. We
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> had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to
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> cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash
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> and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie
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> awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.
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> She always insisted on us telling the truth, the
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> whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time
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> we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had
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> eyes in the back of her head. Then, life was really
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> tough!
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> Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk the horn
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> when they drove up. They had to come up to the door
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> so she could meet them. While everyone else could
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> date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until
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> we were 16.
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> Because of our mother we missed out on lots of
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> things other kids experienced. None of us have ever
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> been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's
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> property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all
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> her fault.
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> Now that we have left home, we are all educated,
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> honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean
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> parents just like Mom was.
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> I think that is what's wrong with the world today.
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> It just doesn't have enough mean moms!
Great one! Thanks for sharing!
Im going to show this to my DD's who think Im the meanest mom. Thanks for sharing!
no i'm the meanest mom lol = ) and i don't even make the boys do half this stuff lol well cleaning wise anyways lol = )
My son and I were talking about this just a few days ago. I always said - in response to why, why do I have to, why doesn't he, etc., etc. - with "because I'm a mean mother". I say hooray for mean mothers.
I second that hooray!
My 13yo helped me clean the fridge out last night and my kids are starting to do their own laundry! At nearly 16, I don't think I should have to run upstairs and get Sarah's laundry. She will do it herself and it's nice!
I think kids should help out. Its the only way they are going to grow into adults that can care for themsleves. I met a newly married couple when we were stationed at Camp Pendleton. Not only could she not write out a check but she did not know how (because she never had) to start the washing machine, cook dinner, make a doctors appointment or anything else that she should have learned before reaching 18 and getting married. Her mom always did everything for them. I'm going to make sure my kids know how to do anything and everything they need to do, to live on their own and if that means I'm mean well then, I guess I'm a mean mom.
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