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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Dear Son, doing things over and over is where most humans fail. We get bored, tired, demotivated, complacent, and if we’re not very careful, cynical. Please, never, ever let this happen. Pinky swear?
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From time to time, Mid Life Celebration will promote something, in this case, our son’s classmate’s Mom, Stacey Norton. Stacey has a website and business designed to use music to help kids be active. Here’s a sample from her website:
Stacey’s developed a series of exercise routines for elementary-aged kids complete with scripts and music. She is interested in producing full-length videos and is looking for anyone interested in helping to fund a potentially game-changing way we engage children in exercise.
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Everybody says, “They grow up fast!”
Maybe it was looking at hundreds of 2005 photos last week.
Maybe it was watching a few very cute videos from 2005.
Maybe it was sleeping alone in this Albuquerque hotel room last night.
Maybe it’s all the promises I’ve made to him that are still unfulfilled.
Maybe it’s those colored beads in the bottle, one for each weekend until an 18th birthday.
We get one shot at this. Only one.
And everybody says, “They grow up fast!”
Two simple choices:
They both have pros and cons.
Welcome to life – the real world.
Have you ever done something you weren’t supposed to do? And in order to do it, you had to do it in a sneaky way? And often, there was a close friend who had already done the thing, and they helped you?
Smoking, drinking, stealing, bad pranks, and so on.
Seriously, these are things adults do not make a conscious effort to teach children. Can you imagine a Mother saying, “Come here son, it’s time you learned how to smoke cigarettes.”
Heard a Chantix commercial last night. Chantix helps smokers quit. Let me set the scene:
Mom comes on saying, “I smoked a pack a day for 25 years. I could not quit smoking, no matter how hard I tried.”
Until one day……
“I told my son to promise me he would never start smoking.”
He said, “Promise me you’ll quit.”
And the Cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon. Little boy blue and the man in the moon……he turned out just like me…..my boy was just like me….