Between my wife and I we have six kids, and we have a lot of friends with kids. One thing we’ve learned, and Twink may learn (but I hope she doesn’t have to experience it), is that good kids come from bad families and bad kids come from good families.
Nobody’s perfect. It’s why Christ died for ALL of us.
Amen to that. I had an idyllic childhood and so did my brother and sisters. We lived on 40 acres and had horses, cows, dogs, cats, pigs and other farm animals to play with and nurture. This is not to mention having tractors, motorcycles, mini-bikes, bicycles, sleds, tree houses and all sorts of other stuff to play with. We were not actually rich but we never had to worry about where the next meal was coming from. My parents loved us and supported us in nearly everything that we wanted to do. My grandparents lived next door so we had a great relationship with them as well and we all want on big family camp outs together.
Yet these days my brother and sisters blame my parents for all sorts of stuff. My parents have literally raised some of their grandkids and they get no thanks or appreciation for that either. No one in our family has got any real problems. My brother is an airline pilot and makes a fortune. Both my sisters are in comfortable situations as well. But they do not go to church; they do not appear to have a relationship with God and they are always unhappy about something. When they are unhappy they blame my parents who are in their 80s and are still amazing people. It is nonsensical to say the least, but disturbingly common.
Our youngest daughter has had some problems. She has hurt people including her kids and her ex-husbands. But she keeps trying to do better. And I am feeling sorry that I aired her problems on this forum. My mom who is on facebook with her says she keeps posting stuff lately about her new job, our grandkids coming to visit her, going to church, baking pies, and the joy she is sharing with our new son-in-law. So I am hopeful that she is on the right track and will stick with it this time. She is by far the most intelligent of our children and I believe that she does have a good heart.
Well it’s a good thing you and many like you can’t teach me a thing worth knowing. Not that I’d ever look for it on an internet forum, lol.