I made it through the week! Thank goodness!

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Yesterday afternoon, after a very rainy day, we were blessed with a beautiful rainbow. I saw the whole rainbow and a smaller double rainbow on one side. It is things like this that make me wish I had the ability to take pictures. I am glad I got to see it...

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I am reading another good book called "The Price of Privledge". It is not an easy book to read, both the topic and the way it is written. It is hard to read how people are screwing up their kids because they don't allow them to solve problems on their own. I do that! It is hard not to. You think about how difficult your life was and you want to prevent that difficulty for your kids, but when you step back and look at the bigger picture, you realize that is what shaped your life. Your ability to make mistakes and learn from them. And by stepping in and solving things for them or making their choices for them, you are denying them of that education. Ouch!

Where do you draw the line? Do you tie their shoes? Do you let them lose something they want? (i.e. DS lost his Ipod) Do you let them fail a test? There was one example in the book where the power went out in a town and two students had a large report due the next morning. When the power came back on, one student grabbed his notes and started re-writing his report from scratch so he could turn it in the next morning. The other student handed his notes to his mother and told her to re-write the report and he went to bed! Sounds like someone needs "line drawing" lessons!

I didn't get the memo that parenting was going to be this difficult! It's bad enough my 8th grader has Algebra 1 and I can't help her! I am not looking forward to high school!