Comments on: PopPop’s Cars http://www.deborahgray.org/2007/08/16/tears-but-no-recriminations/ (Preferably with a decaf mocha in hand) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: mdmhvonpa http://www.deborahgray.org/2007/08/16/tears-but-no-recriminations/#comment-16131 mdmhvonpa Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:21:27 +0000 http://www.deborahgray.org/2007/08/16/tears-but-no-recriminations/#comment-16131 Sometimes, when my children do the 'right thing', I ponder if this was the instinct to do good or some behavior they learned from my parenting. I'm hoping the former and not the latter in so much as I don't want to sully my belief that they are damn near the best kids in the whole rotten world. Interesting, isn't it, that it would be the parent who subverts their own journey when watching their children make their way through life. Then, of course, there are grandchildren ... It's my whimsical belief that a prerequisite of being a Guardian Angel is that you must have been a grandparent. Sometimes, when my children do the ‘right thing’, I ponder if this was the instinct to do good or some behavior they learned from my parenting. I’m hoping the former and not the latter in so much as I don’t want to sully my belief that they are damn near the best kids in the whole rotten world. Interesting, isn’t it, that it would be the parent who subverts their own journey when watching their children make their way through life.

Then, of course, there are grandchildren … It’s my whimsical belief that a prerequisite of being a Guardian Angel is that you must have been a grandparent.

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