Daniel JalkutI just hugged my 17-yo son goodnight. It was a good hug. We always tell each other "I love you." I hugged him at drop-offs in elementary school and other parents lamented "I wish my kids hugged me." I know every kid is different, but our kids hug us because we always hugged them. That's the secret.
Bryan Duke@danielpunkass Absolutely.
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Martin@danielpunkass My 16yo just converted from hugging to lifting me. :-)
Klaas Pieter Annema@danielpunkass I wish that were true. My 11 year old gives me a hug when he goes to school.
One of the twins (8) just says bye the other pretends I donāt exist and runs off.
Same parents. Heck the twins even share DNA and they act completely different š
@kp yep! Thatās the āevery kid is differentā part!
Michael Birenbach@danielpunkass our kids eat salad because that was on the table with nothing else before dinner (for a long time when they were younger anyway). They eat vegetables because thatās the majority of what we served (even before I joined my wife as a vegetarian). Nothing is foolproof and weāre not perfect- but like you say, what you do as a parent matters.
not that coachmike@danielpunkass Nice!
Feeling loved and seeing love and appreciation being displayed by oneās parents is a helluva drug.
Feeling loved and seeing love and appreciation being displayed by oneās parents is a helluva drug.
Leon Cowle@danielpunkass You also excited for them to head off into the big world (presumably college) but at the same time dreading them heading off into the big world? I might need to see a doc for some happy pills come August, I suspect I'm going to be a mess.
SlaĆne@danielpunkass šÆsame here with all mine.