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Originally Posted by wd6474 i have a teenager and at one point i wanted to kill him for everything. but instead i took a deep breath and bought a child called it. made him read it and write a report on what it meant to him...really made him appreciate me... when he handed me his report he looked at me and said " i love you mom".. |
I don't have kids yet so I haven't had a connection with the book in a way that a mother might. But I've read it a couple of times. I've even read it with my husband before we were married. I can honestly say that stories like the book, the one written here, ones that some of the member have shared about themselves, or ones that you hear about other places really makes you think. I don't even know if "stories" is a good word for it because its almost sound like they are made up and they aren't they are people's lives. But I've really learned to appreciate what I have and have been given through out my life because of them. Everytime I hear something like that I'm surprised that it happened. I didn't live a sheltered life, my parents didn't lock me away from the rest of the world but I guess sometimes its just easy to not really look at the rest of the world, not realize what else is out there. I thank my parents for everything that they have given me and am hurt when I hear that someone didn't have as good of, or a better childhood than mine, everyone deserves it.