I realize the Golden Globe telecast isn’t super-high on the priority list for some parents, so I wanted to loop you in on this, in case you missed it: in accepting the award for Best Direction of his extraordinary film Boyhood, Richard Linklater dedicated it to “parents that are evolving everywhere.”
Or as I like to call us, “parents in progress.” We are all ages, and our children range from pre-birth to adult. We are the curious ones, the researchers. We are the parents who have our ears tuned for new information that will enrich our family’s life. We are the status-quo buckers. We are the ones who rarely (if ever) say things like, “Well, my parents spanked me and I turned out okay.” {Continue this post at mothering.com}
Tags: Boyhood, Golden Globes, perfection, self-forgiveness, striving
Hi Marcy,
Good to be over at your blog too 🙂
I just visited the mothering.com post link you gave, and this is what I wrote there –
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That was a wonderful post indeed 🙂
I can well imagine all that you must have gone through during your childhood, and then later when you were expecting your own kids. It’s certainly not easy, but you managed to do so well, which is commendable. I guess that’s where all your struggles and learning came into practice, and made you reach where you are today.
Being a mom of teens too, I can relate to parenting, though have been lucky that ways to not had a tough ride,except the usual ups and downs of parenting, and that every parent goes through. Nevertheless, a learning experience for all.
Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Thank you for the nice comment, Harleena, both here and at mothering. (As you can see from the dates of both my responses, I’m more diligent checking in with my guest posts than with my own site, sigh!) Blessings… M