Be Your Kids Friend NOT Their Parent!!

What an adorable picture…

Yeah I know.  Some of you are disgusted, angry and threatening to never read my blog again!

I don’t really think that parents should cash in their parenting chips to be a younger, hipper, cooler parent!  But I believe there are times when your kids simply need a friend.

Let me explain…

For years I embraced, stepped into and lived the parenting role.  I have always been there to instruct, discipline, guide, teach, inform, correct, love and give three point sermons to my kiddos!

After years of parenting…I woke up and realized that I had become a parent!  Yikes!

There was this huge relational chasm between me and my kiddos because I had spent so much time being a parent.

Yeah…my kids needed me to be a parent, but they also needed me to be a friend.

My kids needed me to…

• Get off my parenting soap box
• Stop giving so many parenting lessons
• Stop, listen and love
• Play lego’s in the floor
• Sit and play a 6 hour game of Monopoly
• Go fishing together
• Cool my jets on correcting their every move….there is some stuff they need to learn the hard way
• Hold their hand and sing “Friends Are Friends Forever”!

Again…I know the title is a bit ridiculous!  But sometimes your kids just need a friend!

What do you think about being your kids friend?
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