How do you raise a perfect kid?

[hatredisnotavalue]

I'm not sure of the route, but I am darn sure of the outcome. My 18-yo son was coming home from HS this afternoon when he came upon a young mother whose car was mired in a snowdrift. He stopped to help and after digging her out, which took 1/2 hour, all realized that her car had a mechanical problem and the front wheel axle had broken. Distraught, she asked my son if he would drive her up to the primary school to pick up her child. After picking up her child, she asked him if he could drive both of them home. Once home, she gave him $10, which he refused to take. She kept insisting and he took it not to make her mad and then gave it to the kid to give back to his mom.

He told me the story when he got home. I told him I was so, so proud of him, to which he responded: "Mom, this is how you raised me. You would have done the same thing. Pay it forward."
Well, I just got to tell you that I am all teary right now. What a great, great kid I have.

[Shell Beau]

1. You seem to be the one to ask!! What a great boy you have on your hands!

:)

[hatredisnotavalue]

3. I know...God I love him so much! n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

2. You see? He was listening to you after all. n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

4. Good for him

and good for you. Well done.

[MedleyMisty]

5. I think your username says it all

Because obviously you taught him that love is a value, not hate.

Thanks for posting, it made me feel better about the species and made me happy because it's easy to see that you're very proud and very happy. :)

[hatredisnotavalue]

7. I am very proud and very happy

It's one thing when you think the way you do, but when your kid carries on those values it is such a rush. Thanks for your post.

[av8rdave]

6. There is no such thing as raising the perfect kid..we do the best we can. (Nobody's perfect) BUT

you came as ^%$# close as is humanly possible! Congratulations

[hatredisnotavalue]

8. Thanks

It was just one moment among many. Geez this kid is just so darn perfect. I am so blessed with having him and his sister. I sometimes feel that I don't deserve having such great children.

[av8rdave]

11. I've felt the same about mine..it's moments like that when you realize

that every now and then, the right lesson/right message stuck with them. Again, congratulations.

[Kutjara]

9. Yep, that's exactly the sort of story...

...I would have told my mom when I got home late after smoking dope with my friends.









I'M KIDDING. He sounds like a great kid.

[hatredisnotavalue]

10. Me too....:)

But she actually just called the house to thank him...

[Left Is Write]

12. You don't.

But yours sounds pretty darn close!

:hug:

[Joe Fields]

13. I don't usually brag, and I'm not quite sure how my son ended up

perfect, but he is. Top one percent of his class in H.S.. The most polite person you could ever meet. Voted top business person in his school. He's eighteen with four Sysco certifications. Photographic memory. Never talked back to his mother and me, ever. Member of the church choir and bell choir. Going to college full time on a full scholarship, while heading up the IT department at city hall in the city we live in. I could go on and on.

I really don't know what I did to deserve such a fine young man as a son. I count my blessings every day.