We Have a Pre-teener!

 

How come she's this big already? I can already count the years until she wont enjoy our company anymore. When she would let us cuddle her and sleep beside us. Hay! Time really do fly by. She's growing up way too fast right before our very eyes. There are moments when I am feeling all sentimental as I look at her. Memories of me holding her in my arms to put her to sleep keep flashing in. 

It's true no, in the eyes of a mother their child will always be babies no matter how big they become. A mother will always be sentimental whenever they think of their children growing up. That is so true to this mama as well.

I know that a few years from now, my daughter will no longer enjoy our company that is why as much as we can now, we tag her along wherever we go and whenever possible.

I know that few years from  now she'll ask for her privacy and would want her own space that is why although she has her own room now, we still allow her to sleep with us whenever she wants to (she got scared easily so oftentimes she climbs to our bed in the middle of the night).

My only prayer is for her to grow as a kind person, respectful to her elders and to be happy with her life whatever she wished to be in the future. In the end, I can only hope that when we are gone in this world, I want to see her happy with her life. 

Raising a pre-teen at this time and age is quite challenging especially because of the many influences that she can easily get from the internet and from the people surrounding her but my only consolation is that I know that we raised her well. There are times that she acts all so entitled and bratty but I see to it to correct her. I always tell her to share to other people because being an only child can sometimes make her selfish. Even though she's our only child- we raised her together with her cousins so that she wont have the tendency to be entitled. 

Disciplining her is another thing that we somehow struggled as well. Since us couple tries to be the cool parents to her because I want her to be comfortable to share whatever she feels like sharing to us, there are times that our being cool and funky parenting style becomes a hindrance in disciplining her. But at the end of the day, we parents should be the bigger person and correct as early as now whenever we notice some intolerable behaviors.

I would say that we have been a good example to her or we are trying our best to be good examples to her at least and I believe that is stronger than any other disciplining methods. 

She's got so many dreams for her future, I just pray that God will give us more years pa so that we can be there as she reach for her dreams.

Thank you Lord for our daughter, I will not be greedy and ask for more- she's already a handful.