If They Would Just Do What I'd Say, EveryThing Would Be All Right !

One of the biggest struggles as a parent is letting our children make decisions of their own. This is difficult because we can the see the disasters waiting to devour them around the corner. Sometimes, I wish they would just let me make their decisions for them, and everything would be ok. There is a problem with my wishes as you may already know. There is a couple of reasons why what I want may not be the best approach in my parenting skills category. After all, this blog is about my not so excellent parenting experiences in hopes that you can learn from them.

About six months ago my oldest daughter's car broke down again. This was very frustrating to me because that meant I would have to drive her around. It also meant a possibility of her losing work opportunities and me having to sponsor her living experiences. Luckily, it was close to income tax return time, so I would only have to dip into our own income reserves for a short amount of time. While I was playing chauffeur to my daughter and granddaughter, my husband kept busy internet stalking for the best bargain for the less money for the most car. My daughter kept insisting that she wanted to find her own car when her money came in. But we knew what was best for her, so we made the decisions concerning her next vehicle for her.

We finally found a great looking car. The mileage was great and everything. The car drove out of the seller's yard purring like a kitten. We were all proud of our great find even my daughter. Until it broke down after a couple of weeks. We sunk another 1500 dollars into that car just so it could catch fire while my daughter was driving it on the highway. My daughter faulted us her parents for wasting her money on a horrible car. You think I would have learned my lesson from that, but I didn't.