Parenting 101, or 102, or 103?

Everyday the kids come home from school.  I say, "how was your day?  Anything fun happen?"  Sometimes I get elaborate stories about something, sometimes I get grunts, sometimes they just walk by.  They eat, then I ask, "how much homework do you have?"  The twins always say, "NONE!" and then we go through what everyone else has.  This week Sunday, I asked if everyone's homework was done.  One daughter said very casually, "I have a book to read but I'm so far behind I just quit.  I read most of it.  I have a quiz tomorrow."  Ok.  Usually once she gets behind/gets sick of reading, we get the book online and she listens/follows along.  So I asked her why we didn't do that.  She said, "I don't really like the book, so I don't want to read it or listen to it."  All good, common sense answers.  Steve and I just let it go.  We said, we'll see how the quiz goes.  We can't force something at 9pm on Sunday night. 
I've been asking how the quiz went.  Today she says, "I got a C."  I'm like, "hey that's not too bad, for not reading the book, kudos to you!"  She said, "yeah last time I read the book and I got a C.  He said this quiz was harder."  I did add, "maybe next time we should try to read the book."

Wow are kids different and unique and I LOVE THEM ALL!!  This parenting is fun (most of the time) and a wild ride.  The crazy thing is we all parent so different, but most of us, with the same goal.  To have a child that LOVES the Lord, and that's heart is filled with Him. 

I had conferences this week and I called Steve before going into one of them.  I said, "I think I'm prepared."  But he knew, chances were, I'd be crying by the time I got back to the car.  He said, "Don't sweat this!  She's a good kid.  She's passionate about life.  She's going to be ok."  We'll she has the BEST teacher.  Because she said the same thing. It was the best conference and she really has pretty decent grades. Go figure!

I look at all these kids and how they learn so different.  I kinda feel bad they are stuck with us as parents, but I figure we'll all just muttle through and we're going to be alright.  They all definitely have a passion for life!!  To God be the Glory!!!