Kids these days..... what happened to them. I know I was probably no angel as a child.... in fact I know wasn't. It seems like most kids around here live up to the name "army brat" This INCLUDES my kids. They are polite, kind and well mannered when they want to be. But, there are many times that I am shocked at some of the things that come out of their mouths. Sometimes I wonder if they appreciate anything that they are given.
This is something that I should be teaching them. Where did I go wrong? Maybe to them they don't see me earning anything because I don't work other than at home. I assume they dont think they are a job in itself. Maybe it's because when the guys are gone it's so easy to give into your kids so that they will just be quiet and listen from time to time. Maybe it's because I try to compensate for their dad being gone and not having family here with them, that I feel bad.
I am in no way saying that my kids are bad kids. They just don't understand that concept of enjoying what is around you. I like to think this is a product of their culture and the way the world is today. People always want want want, and when they get what they want, they want more or better. Everything is like a worldwide competition. We complain about money, cars, jobs, people...... can you really complain if you do the same things? I am not pointing fingers, I do this too.
This is not how I want my life to be lived, or something that I want my kids to continue. So there is only one solution..... From now on this family is going to start appreciating and respecting what it has. The things in our homes, the people in our lives, the weather, and anything else. My kids are great with their manners so thats a good starting point. From today on, things in this house will be earned.
I have decided to get them each a piggy bank and when they do things they are asked to do to help out they can earn change that way. They can buy their own toys and learn the value of money that way. My kids may not know it, but the things that we have took us a long time to get, and I sometimes think that they need a better understanding of how the world really is.
I know that I also complain a lot about people and things... money, and my health.... But I am going to try and not do that anymore. We don't have to be the "army family" that people have labeled that life style to be with the :army Brats" in fact we are not going to be.
I will start to find the beauty in things rather than the ugly things. Appreciating people that appreciate me in return, taking advantage of the nice weather....
It's easy to complain when you are a military family. Complain about the clinics, the drs, the staff at places, the lack of things, the time it takes to get anything done, the deployments, the fact that you are alone to live life for a year, the way the army takes the people you got close to and moves them across the U.S, the commissary on payday, the distance between you and your family, the long hours your spouse works, blah blah blah.
There are great things that you get to experience in this life and we are going to get to those things from now on. I get to have my kids with me all the time, and watch them grow and learn and turn into little independent people. I have the chance to go to school and learn and grow myself. Nothing is greater than that really. That is true beauty.
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