In our last newsletter we ran an Article called Raising Girls and we received some great feedback from one of our Subscribers who is playing a very important role in our community. We loved her letter so much, we wanted to share it with you too!
I have two birth daughters at home and can have as many as four other girls
living here at any one time (foster girls, overseas students etc). I also look
after boys as well, and I find that they are all individuals and have to be
treated differently.
Many of the girls are teenagers (and believe me, sometimes they are a breed
apart). All children can be challenging, but the fun is in the challenge. I
tell all my children (even if I didn't give birth to them, while they are here
I treat them as my own). The thing I have found, is to love their individuality,
and not to compare one to another, but to love them all.
Yes, I admit that loving them can be hard, but all children teach us something,
usually something about ourselves, and not only do they learn from us, if we
try, we can learn from them also.
One valuable thing I tell all my "children" is that "you can
do anything, if you try hard enough, the main thing is that you try".
Another thing I have found out along the way is the respect for each other
and to have tolerance for each other, without either of these things our lives
can become difficult.
Anyway, I just thought I would share a few of my thoughts with you.