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[quote=Anonymous]I'm starting this thread for the OP on another one who is wondering if her death would benefit her children more than her presence because it would wipe out her debt and leave some life insurance money for them.  Please help her appreciate how what she gives to her children that is not replaceable by any amount of money.

OP, I'm sure you have your own stories.  Here's one of mine.

I remember when I was a little girl going into my parents' bedroom while my dad was at work and organizing his sock drawer.  Normally all the socks were just thrown in there, but I would match them up with their mates and carefully stack them into neat piles of dress socks and athletic socks.  When he came home from work, I would grab his hand and pull him to the bedroom to show him what I'd done for him.  He would make a big, effusive show of gratitude.  "Oh honey!  Look how wonderful my sock drawer looks.  It's so neat and clean and now I can find everything so easily.  No more hunting around for a matching sock.  You must have worked so hard!  Thank you!"  I would nearly burst with pride and pleasure.  I can't think of anything I've accomplished in life that ever made me feel so proud and appreciated as I did on those days.

From that, I learned to show appreciation for nice things that people do for me, how doing a favor for someone else can make me feel better than doing something for myself, how easy it can be to make someone else's life a little better, and how important it is to match the socks together as you fold your laundry.  I also learned that there is nothing so powerful to a child as seeing that your mother or father is proud of you.

(When Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her role in The Hours, she brought her mother to the ceremony as her date.  In her acceptance speech, she very emotionally said how happy she was that she won because all she ever wanted to do was make her mother proud of her.  I remember the look of shock on her mother's face when she said that, how she couldn't believe that Nicole would ever believe she [i]wasn't[/i] proud of her.  But even someone so accomplished and successful needed to see it from her mother herself.)

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