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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught my kids to celebrate me. I took them to the store to buy me gifts, set them up at the dining table to make me cards, taught them to make me breakfast in bed, to bake, to choreograph a dance, etc. You have to teach them.[/quote] I don’t think this is strange at all. When you’re a single mom, you either moan about not getting any gifts for Mother’s Day and Christmas and your birthday and Valentine’s Day, or you teach your kids that you’d like them to make or buy you a little something for all of those holidays, in the same way that you buy them (lots of) things. You plan it and make it happen. My daughter “takes me” somewhere special every year for Mother’s Day. She picks. I of course actually drive and pay because she’s 7. It’s usually the zoo or frying pan farm or similar, but she plans the whole thing. It’s lovely and sweet and a little bit funny every year. For Christmas I give her a $10 bill and turn her loose in Target. She picks out anything she wants to for me. Friends have offered to take her shopping but she really likes doing it herself. I follow at a distance to make sure she’s safe, but she picks something out herself, and she’s SUPER proud. She makes me a card or drawing for every holiday, without me asking (although I did ask when she was younger). I feel completely celebrated, and I also like that she understands that the holidays aren’t all about her.[/quote] This is good parenting. Smug housewives are very quick to judge alternatives to what their families do...but they have not had to get creative to teach our children good values all by ourselves. These practices are very well conceived. [/quote]
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