I will admit when I'm wrong.

I want to come clean on something.  In my last post, I was mad.  Very mad.  You see we are at the end of a long year of my child living out all of my parental insecurities.  A parent never wants their child to be the child sitting alone at lunch, or the child that is being ruthlessly bullied.  A parent never wants to think of their child as an outcast or the different child.

My child had gotten in the car that afternoon and proclaimed that there was a birthday party and the entire class, save 5 children, had gotten invited to said birthday party.  It was to be an extravagant event with a theme that my own child had asked for several years running.  A fellow classmate had come up and said to my child I'm sure you are invited I will ask the birthday boy.  The birthday boy confirmed, my child was not invited.

The thing is...SO WHAT!   This child has a right to have whatever kind of birthday party they want to have.  They have the right to invite whomever they want to invite or not invite.  Does it hurt to be the one not invited?  Sure, but guess what...life lesson!  Matthew 7:12  Do unto others as you would have done to you.

Fast forward a week.  A friend had a birthday party where she did indeed invite the entire class.  Children got hurt, there wasn't enough supervision, it was a madhouse.  Parents complained and I learned that you can never please everyone.

I am not sad for the school year to be over.  I very much enjoy having my children at home without the stressful dealings of life, for when we are home we can shut out the world and only allow in the people who agree with us and like us and want to be around us.

The thing is that isn't reality.  Life is not fair.  People are not nice, but guess what?  You can't go around letting the mean people win.  There are nice people and there are fun things that are going to happen to you if you get out there and live.

In the movie Finding Nemo, Nemo's dad says I don't want anything to happen to him!!!  Dory the fish says but if nothing ever happens to him, nothing will ever happen to him.

I want things to happen for my children.  I want them to understand disappointment so that they may better appreciate things.  I want them to understand hurt so that they will in turn not hurt.  I want them to understand that good friends are like a treasure that you have to search for and once you find them cherish them.

Happy treasure hunting my friends!!