7/28/2021
4 years ago
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Here's a question for you....
Ashlin has been spending all of this wonderful family time with her Nana & Papa. This has sparked some interesting questions. She asked me this morning if I had a Nana & Papa I said yes, it's Grandaddie & Grandma (which she knows well and loves and can't forget Auntie J!). Then she asked do you have a mom and dad? It makes me sad that she even has to ask this question. She has seen my mom a three times. I have barely even seen my dad. So, what do you say to that?
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I understand where you are coming from Veda. I rarely see my Dad. Unfortunately, he chose to be an absent parent. My youngest two think he is dead. I think it's because Steven's Dad is dead and since they never see mine, it just makes sense. One thing that caused a striking reaction from Mason was when we made a family pedigree using smiley faces. We said something like this - "Here is mom and here is dad", as we drew the heads(smiley faces). "Now here is Dad's dad and mom" and so on. We talked about choices and eternal families. In our family we have multiple dads who chose to abandon their families. We used that as an opportunity to teach about choices and keeping promises to our family and God. Mason said that it was so sad that they made those choices and then he insisted those faces have frowns. Of course we told him how much we loved our family and God and that Cockrum's are promise keepers. He liked that.
How blessed that she has an eternal family. Like Dana said it is all about choices. You turned out to be wonderful and God has seen fit to bless you so much. I am sure it is a challenge to explain though.
I've found with my daughter the best way to answer those tough questions is just being honest. Ashlee's asked me some really hard questions about my divorce - but she seems to respond much better when I just tell her the truth and try to help her understand the right and wrong of the situation! Your amazing and I'm sure you'll handle it perfectly! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
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