Sometimes a parent can feel like they're fighting an uphill battle, while carrying a sack of weights on their back! You try to show your kids how to manage life, how to care for their things so they last, how to save their pocket money for something worthwhile rather than a purchase at the $2 shop on a toy that lasts a day, how to eat to stay healthy, how to keep promises, how to put things back where they belong. And you wonder if any of it is getting through.
Just when you think you are a complete and utter failure as a parent. When the kids won't stop fighting, their rooms are a mess, and getting them to empty the dishwasher needs a degree of negotiation skill far superior to the one you possess. When the homework is late, the dinner burned and you're so frazzled you put the car keys away in the fridge, a miracle occurs...
Miss A and Miss B disappear into the rat nest that is Miss B's boudoir. We are banned from entering. three hours later (with no screaming and very little shouting coming from said room), they emerge. The Bloke and I are duly escorted, blindfolded, to the unveiling of a SPOTLESS and TIDY room. Once I picked myself up off the floor, I heaped praise upon them and gave myself a surreptitious pat on the back.
So there is hope?
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