Comments on: Letting Go http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/ Your Family. Your Solutions! Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:56:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Vicki http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-382 Vicki Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:05:52 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-382 Tell S. that I LOVE Taylor Swift. She is gonna be a rock star for years and years to come. I LOVE your idea about itunes. It's perfect. You can stay plugged in to her music while she is growing into her adolescence. Perfect Balance. Tell S. that I LOVE Taylor Swift. She is gonna be a rock star for years and years to come. I LOVE your idea about itunes. It’s perfect. You can stay plugged in to her music while she is growing into her adolescence. Perfect Balance.

]]> By: Vicki http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-381 Vicki Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:04:58 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-381 INDY - Oh my dear friend. What a welcome surprise. I think of you so, so, SO often. Would love to connect if you have any interest. Please let me know. Kisses to all of you. INDY - Oh my dear friend. What a welcome surprise. I think of you so, so, SO often. Would love to connect if you have any interest. Please let me know.

Kisses to all of you.

]]> By: Slawebb http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-379 Slawebb Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:08:07 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-379 Interesting that you wrote this the same week S (7) came home and asked me about a song she heard in music class. It is a song by Taylor Swift. And she said to me, "I could listen to this forever!" As I pulled it up on youtube, so she could watch the video, my eye began to tear up because I can see that she is growing up. She is starting to develop preferences and opinions about things that have nothing to do with me. It seems like just yesterday I was holding her in my arms, welcoming her into the world. And now she is, as she has always been, moving away from me. So I just gave her a hug and listened with her. I keep pulling up the video so she can hear it again...and again. Maybe it time to put some of that allowance to good use, to download some music for her. Interesting that you wrote this the same week S (7) came home and asked me about a song she heard in music class. It is a song by Taylor Swift. And she said to me, “I could listen to this forever!” As I pulled it up on youtube, so she could watch the video, my eye began to tear up because I can see that she is growing up. She is starting to develop preferences and opinions about things that have nothing to do with me. It seems like just yesterday I was holding her in my arms, welcoming her into the world. And now she is, as she has always been, moving away from me. So I just gave her a hug and listened with her. I keep pulling up the video so she can hear it again…and again. Maybe it time to put some of that allowance to good use, to download some music for her.

]]> By: Indy http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-377 Indy Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:13:31 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-377 Thank you for helping me to understand that our job as parents is to help them become more independent each year. My teenagers are responsible and capable individuals. And it is so true the more I let go and trust them to make good decisions and expect them to be responsible, the closer we become. Vicki, your classes that I took 3 years in a row altered the course of our parenting that will positvely impact generations to come. Indy Thank you for helping me to understand that our job as parents is to help them become more independent each year. My teenagers are responsible and capable individuals. And it is so true the more I let go and trust them to make good decisions and expect them to be responsible, the closer we become.
Vicki, your classes that I took 3 years in a row altered the course of our parenting that will positvely impact generations to come.
Indy

]]> By: Sarah http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-376 Sarah Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:30:57 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-376 Thank you both V & J for helping me look forward to every moment of letting go of my babies. xo Sarah Thank you both V & J for helping me look forward to every moment of letting go of my babies.
xo
Sarah

]]> By: Vicki http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-375 Vicki Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:29:41 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-375 For me too. I LOVE having my kids home with me. Never a rush to send them back out into the world. Hope you are well and would relish another play date with you. V For me too. I LOVE having my kids home with me. Never a rush to send them back out into the world. Hope you are well and would relish another play date with you.

V

]]> By: Slawebb http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-374 Slawebb Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:26:53 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-374 This has really made me think. I have been holding my children back. I have been taking away their power to decide when they are ready for the next step. S (7) is constantly asking for permission to do things. Things I know she can do for herself. And it occurred to me today that I have made it so she doesn't trust her ability to decide what to do next, to know when she is ready to do more. So now I am going to sit down with her and ask her what she feels ready to do on her own. I'm going to make a list to remind me that there are things she can do for herself that I don't need or have any business to be involved. I have always wanted to empower my kids and instead I have been taking it away. Oops, but I know I will do better. Thanks making such an important point! This has really made me think. I have been holding my children back. I have been taking away their power to decide when they are ready for the next step. S (7) is constantly asking for permission to do things. Things I know she can do for herself. And it occurred to me today that I have made it so she doesn’t trust her ability to decide what to do next, to know when she is ready to do more.

So now I am going to sit down with her and ask her what she feels ready to do on her own. I’m going to make a list to remind me that there are things she can do for herself that I don’t need or have any business to be involved. I have always wanted to empower my kids and instead I have been taking it away. Oops, but I know I will do better.

Thanks making such an important point!

]]> By: shalagh http://www.parentingontrack.com/discovery/letting-go/#comment-373 shalagh Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:16:51 +0000 http://www.parentingontrack.com/?p=4161#comment-373 Thanks for this post . It was hard to see the girls go back to school after so many days together. Great info and reminders. Thanks for this post . It was hard to see the girls go back to school after so many days together. Great info and reminders.

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