From small ones to the really big ones, I think we all handle it differently.
Summer fun...learning to wakeboard...
Almost into the lake to spend a day of wakeboarding...unloading the boat off the trailer and things are "lookin' good"...
Grandgirl all excited and hopefull and just full of "I can't wait"....
She has a brand new wakeboard...and in about 5 MORE MINUTES, she can be on IT...
It was going to be a day with just us "girls", on the lake, having fun...
She's going to be 13 next month..!
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A phone call from town made us pull the boat back out and head for home, an hour away...
She was just crushed....so dissapointed that we were going to have to wait
for another time...
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Promises from her mom to go back to the lake "as soon as we can" didn't really make her feel all that much better...
At almost 13, we all live "for the moment" and to get hyped up for something really exciting...something we really want to do....we're crushed when we can't do it. ....
..RIGHT NOW...
Worrying about her brother that had to go to the emergency room at a hospital in town didn't dull the sting of dissapointment.
Of course not....she's only 12....
Learning to deal with dissapointment can be a pretty hard lesson....
Even as we get older, it can bring on all kinds of emotions...learning to deal with those emotions eventually make us who we are today....
Growing up and having small dissapointments in life
help us to handle the BIGGER ones that we ALL face..throughout our entire life.
Us grown-ups want to take away all the dissapointments in life for our children and grandchildren....we never want them to hurt....and yet...we DO want them to become strong so that, later on down life's road, thing will be easier for them....we want them to be able to accept, without real destruction, things that might happen ...or not happen...that doesn't fit into their plans of life.
Things that are considered HUGE dissapointments...
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We've all had our fair share of THOSE.....I've had some that made me cry for days but they surely didn't distroy my faith. THIS is what we want for our young ones.
The biggest dissapointment and hurt in my life makes me sad...and cry a lot...and worry much more than I should...but my faith in God is stronger for it.
This is why it's so important to help a child handle their dissapointments...it is something that will help them so much on "down the road."
I am so proud of how my children have taught THEIR children that it is OK to be dissapointed when things don't go as planned.
It's a perfectly natural and normal reaction to things that go astray from your plans...
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...it's HOW we learn to handle these things thatmake us who we are as a grown person...
there is NO doubts in my mind that she will be able to handle the BIGGER dissapointments in life...and I'm very proud of her.
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I AM SO PROUD OF ALL MY FAMILY AND ALL THE OTHER BLESSINGS I RECEIVE EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE.
YOU are a huge blessing in my life...
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*added NOTE...Her brother is just fine.....and she DID get to go back to the lake !!
linking with
WATERY WEDNESDAY
Cold, icy water with lemon,
This is that plant that starts out green and as it gets closer to FALL, the little flowers start turning PINK and then to a dark orange......YEP....every thing is saying it won't be long until Fall is here, officially...
