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My daughter sent this to me as an email and at first I was afraid to read it. Now I must say... I'm PROUD to be a MEAN MOM!
> Just had to share it with you!
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> Mean Moms
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> Someday when my children are old enough to
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> understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will
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> tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you
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> enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom,
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> and what time you would be home.
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> I loved you enough to be silent and let you
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> discover that your new best friend was a creep.
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> I loved you enough to make you go pay for the
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> bubble gum you had taken and tell the clerk, "I
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> stole this yesterday and want to pa! y for it ."
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> I loved you enough to stand over you for two
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> hours while you cleaned your room, a job that should
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> have taken 15 minutes.
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> I loved you enough to let you see anger,
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> disappointment, and tears in my eyes. Children must
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> learn that their parents aren't perfect.
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> I loved you enough to let you assume the
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> responsibility for your actions even when the
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> penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
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> But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to
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> say NO when I knew you would hate me for it.
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> Those were the most difficult battles of all.
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> I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won,
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> too. And someday when your children are old enough
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> to understand the logic that motivates parents, you
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> will tell them.! < /FONT>
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> Was your Mom mean? I know mine was. We had the
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> meanest Mom in the whole world! While other kids ate
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> candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs,
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> and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for
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> lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess
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> our Mom fixed us a dinner that was different from
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> what other kids had, too.
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> Mom insisted on knowing where we were at all
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> times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She
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> had to know who our friends were, and what we were
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> doing with them. She insisted that if we said we
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> would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an
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> hour or less.
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> We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the
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> nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us
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> work. We had to wash the dishes, make the beds,
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> learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty
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> the trash and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she
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> would lie awake at night thinking of more things for
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> us to do.
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> She always insisted on us telling the truth,
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> the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the
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> time we were teenagers, she could read our minds and
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> had eyes in the back of her head. Then, life was
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> really tough!
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> Mom wouldn't let our friends just honk the
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> horn when they drove up. They had to come up to the
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> door so she could meet them. While everyone else
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> could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait
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> until we were 16.
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> Because of our mother we missed out on lots of
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> things other kids experienced. None of us have ever
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> been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's
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> property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all
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> her fault.
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> Now that we have left home, we are all
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> educated, honest adults. We are doing our best to be
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> mean parents just like Mom was.
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> I think that is what's wrong with the world
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> today. It just doesn't have enough mean moms!
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