Pam Sorooshian wrote:
"None of us are perfect; we'll all have some regrets. But with my kids 19, 16, and 13, I can now say that I will never say anything like, 'I wish I'd let them fight it out more,' or 'I wish I'd punished them more,' or 'I wish I'd yelled at them more.' I will only ever say that I wish I'd been more patient, more attentive, more calm and accepting of the normal stresses of having young children.
"One interaction at a time. Just make the next interaction a relationship-building one. Don't worry about the one AFTER that, until IT becomes 'the next one'."
—Pam Sorooshian
(whose daughters are now 20 to 26 years old)
photo by Sandra Dodd
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It's so true. In French here:
ReplyDeletehttp://journaljose.blogspot.com/2011/12/que-regretterez-vous.html
With pictures of what we'll never regret ! :-)
Thanks Pam and Sandra, wholehearted women and moms !
Edith