THANK GOODNESS my tenth grade daughter cracked under pressure and blabbed on time to prevent me from suffering mentally at the hands of her April Fool's joke.
She went into school and told her Parent/Child Development teacher and two friends that she was pregnant and scared to death to tell me. After a few minutes of hysterics, the teacher finally worked up the fortitude to offer to call me and help her present this to me...and she finally gave in and told the teacher it was a prank before anyone got SERIOUSLY HURT!!!
The enlightenment part? Well, I feel that as kids are dropping out of school like fleas off a chemically treated dog...my daughter is still innocent and not intending to sleep around. I feel like a parent that is on the right track. It made me think about the "what if", in the event that this may be true..and I realized that there is this angry Mom that would want to hurt a boy..if it were true..and that helped me to recognize a few changes that need to be made within myself...because in the future, if such a thing really happened...I would not want to react the way that I may have, lest that call come thru and I really thought that my daughter was pregnant.
It woke up a part of me that really needs to become a more patient and understanding individual. Now, for the work...I must do the work. While I have been striving to be a better person, I now see that patience and acceptance is still lacking in crucial areas.
i know...boring..but for me..it was enlightening.
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