– your kid offers to bunk with a kid that she doesn’t really hang out with at camp cuz that kid’s parent is seen sobbing like a blithering fool when dropping off at the bus…
– your kid is humming the music to “Dhoom” rather than popping to Beyonce…(yes, I think this is a good thing, shoot me if you must)
– despite your sense of urgency your kid refuses to read the Quran without reading and attempting to understand the meanings…
I know that our typical desi nature is to not rattle off praises for our own kids but at the end of the day they do end up doing things that re-affirm your faith in your own abilities.
Masha-Allah Gupshup has some of the best moms and dads that I’ve ever come across. But we all have those times that make us wonder if we are doing the best that we can.
Use this thread to share with us the moments that made you feel you had done something right…I’m sure we’d all like to be part of your joy…
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i’m by no means a perfect parent. but because sugar/junk food has always been a huge weakness of mine and I’ve never been able to correct my horrible eating habits, it makes me especially proud when:
I am eating a bag of chips or a bowl of ice-cream and my 2 year old, sitting right next to me, demands more tomato/cucumber/any vegetable you can name and actually REFUSES the junk-food if I offer to share.
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I’m so like you
And my kid will take fruit over candy or chips any day!
Except she’ll buckle for chocolate ice cream. I think I caught her having it for breakfast one day.
awww…that’s too cute.
how did you find out that she did that? did you catch her in the act or did she tell you she “saved the boogers”?
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although i’m probably stealing credit from his awesomeness here, but it gives me the warm fuzzies when when he welcomes other toddlers in the sandbox with a hug, and offers up his sand toys without being asked to share. and he’s not even 2 yet! bless his heart. i hope i had something to do with that!
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When you show up at a regular parent/teacher conference and before you’ve even had the chance to sit down, teacher says to you, “if I had a daughter I would want her to be like (daghter’s name), I have two boys”. Makes my heart melt every time I remember this.
When your 9yo is good enough at designing her own desi outfits that actually turn out beautiful. She defenitely takes after me in this one.
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I once dropped off Lila at her Pre-K and was looking at her from out in the hall. I always watch her for a few minutes after dropping her off, there is a nice big window in the door. She doesn’t know I’m doing it. One day, another little girl was crying and crying for her mother and Lila went up to her and brought her little stuffed tiger and proceeded to do a little silly show just for the little girl with voices and sound effects to cheer her up. The little girl ended up giggling like little girls do. That’s when I knew that my baby is a good person.
Last week she was in a football (soccer) game for a little camp. She was running around having a blast and one of the girls that she doesn’t particularly like, Lexi (she has bitten Lila a number of times), fell down and started crying and while all the other kids kept playing, Lila went up to her, helped her up, brushed the grass off of her and made sure she was OK. She has compassion, it makes me so proud.
For the record, all of her goodness comes from her mother.
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when she can understand hat her other is bit disturbed and comes and cheer her, no matter wht is going inside me I smile because I know if I am upset it will bother her.
when after end of every party / get together ppl tell me she was the most well behaved kid (no matter how naughty she is at home she behaves so well in gatherings allhumdullah)
when I put her in car and she jumps in her car seat.
i hope i had something to do with that! 
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