03-03-2010, 08:47 AM
Kathy,
I am with your kids on this one, we had lived in 19 different houses by the time I was 16 and it was the pits. My parents were tenure track professors who had to do research in other countries, so we moved even more than my cousins whose dad was in the Air Force! I chose to stay in the same house for virtually all my kids' growing up years so they could have life long relationships. My parents made their careers the first priority, I waited until my kids were almost grown to start mine. I'm not saying either one is right or wrong, just that each choice has different long term consequences for the whole family.
Carol
I am with your kids on this one, we had lived in 19 different houses by the time I was 16 and it was the pits. My parents were tenure track professors who had to do research in other countries, so we moved even more than my cousins whose dad was in the Air Force! I chose to stay in the same house for virtually all my kids' growing up years so they could have life long relationships. My parents made their careers the first priority, I waited until my kids were almost grown to start mine. I'm not saying either one is right or wrong, just that each choice has different long term consequences for the whole family.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb