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Salonika
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Dear tabsie3210
Have been thinking about your posts on this thread quite a bit today – have a suggestion you might like to consider. But first I’d like to say I am impressed with how you have dealt with our responses to your post. They are not the response of someone who included in her description of herself “a spoiled brat who’s 31, lives at home with her parents, and doesn’t want to take responsibility. I’m lazy, but worse, I’m a coward.”
In my view you’re being very wise to “use these boards as a sounding board when I know there’s something on my mind and I can’t properly articulate it.” But sometimes it isn’t easy to deal with the responses but one thing that has come through the thread is that we all care about you and want to be helpful.
My suggestion comes out of your comment “I’m called to do as a responsible adult who has much to give to young people who won’t get what I have without my help” and complements your started working with kids in a supervised setting.
Some children do not have many responsible and loving adults in their lives. Some do but the adult’s lifestyle means that they do not/cannot spend much time with them. Some children would love to have a “special" adult to spend time with. I guess the role is part godparent, part aunt, part friend.
You may already know of such children, if you don’t maybe those working with children in the supervised session may know some. Maybe your parish priest knows some families who fit this description and who appreciate you spending some quality time with their child or children.
It’s just a suggestion and remembering that often our suggestions say more about us than anything else, it mightn’t be for you.
I got very close to a friend’s middle son – people outside his family overlooked him giving their attention to his very bright older brother and very cute younger brother. At first he could hardly believe I wanted to play games with him, I wanted him to show me over the farm.
Best wishes
Salonika
Have been thinking about your posts on this thread quite a bit today – have a suggestion you might like to consider. But first I’d like to say I am impressed with how you have dealt with our responses to your post. They are not the response of someone who included in her description of herself “a spoiled brat who’s 31, lives at home with her parents, and doesn’t want to take responsibility. I’m lazy, but worse, I’m a coward.”
In my view you’re being very wise to “use these boards as a sounding board when I know there’s something on my mind and I can’t properly articulate it.” But sometimes it isn’t easy to deal with the responses but one thing that has come through the thread is that we all care about you and want to be helpful.
My suggestion comes out of your comment “I’m called to do as a responsible adult who has much to give to young people who won’t get what I have without my help” and complements your started working with kids in a supervised setting.
Some children do not have many responsible and loving adults in their lives. Some do but the adult’s lifestyle means that they do not/cannot spend much time with them. Some children would love to have a “special" adult to spend time with. I guess the role is part godparent, part aunt, part friend.
You may already know of such children, if you don’t maybe those working with children in the supervised session may know some. Maybe your parish priest knows some families who fit this description and who appreciate you spending some quality time with their child or children.
It’s just a suggestion and remembering that often our suggestions say more about us than anything else, it mightn’t be for you.
I got very close to a friend’s middle son – people outside his family overlooked him giving their attention to his very bright older brother and very cute younger brother. At first he could hardly believe I wanted to play games with him, I wanted him to show me over the farm.
Best wishes
Salonika