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The Grass is always Greener |
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by nikki355  (May 2008) (rank 500+) |
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I live in a Town where there are high wage employees, there are unemployed people and there are a lot of very underpaid working people... We are the latter. I get envious of people being able to give their children everything they want whilst we struggle to barely clothe them
in decent clothing. I find the rates are continuously going up and the cost of food and petrol...well you all know what thats like. I am always feeling sad about not having money but when I have a spare 5 minutes to myself I always think I really don't know what I am complaining about we have a roof over our head and we dont' go hungry (we may not afford the luxuries but there is always some sort of food in the house) What upsets me is we are trying so hard to teach our children how not to be selfish and that you can't get everything you want in the world and the "rich" kids come along while our kids are high up there in moods and make them topple down by saying things like oh look at the car your dad drives (and it really isn't anything special it has just got a body kit on it and it was a pretty cheap car) but oh yuck look at the house you live in. It was so hard and such a punch in my daughters stomach I really didnt' know what to say. These same children have come to our house eating food in front of my kids ( we also teach our children if there is not enough for everyone then it doesn't get eaten until there is only them) only for these children to chuck there rubbish in our yard and when our daughter says we arn't allowed to do that they reply well we can your house is a dump. I have since banned these kids from coming to our house but how cruel are some children. I banned my children from going there when i found out they were trying to light fires and my kids came and told me and I banned them instantly. I try so hard to be a good mum yet while teaching our children right from wrong and I haven't come across more pleasant kids (not at home they aren' t lol but hey got to be naughty some time) I get a load of comments on my kids and it makes me burst with pride. It makes me so proud when they say excuse me in the shops to get past people and it makes me so hurt when the older generation that they have just used manners for just ignores them and wont' move thats when i become quite not nice. I just hope that they grow up and have learnt from all the selfishness and get through life with the kindness they have been taught and continue to grow as beautiful people and forget the hatred. I am also teaching them as they grow that the grass in never greener on the other side no matter how dead our side looks right now. Keep up the great manners my babies i love you.
I hope that all you great mums and dads in Minti teach your children that manners dont' cost anything but go a long way in our life.
xxx
