These Kids, Your kids, Our kids

These kids want to be grown up,

Do-it-yourself but don't realize how much they need you know-it-alls,

While really needing to be

Guided, nurtured and heard.

These kids will grow to be their best

With the right combination of “supportilizer” that

Each of us has patented our own brand of.

Your kids will fight, argue, swear they’re “done,” and have “done” their best,

Will become door slamming,

Lawyer worthy case pleaders

Who cry in your lap one minute

And swear they are grown-up enough to handle everything the next.

Your kids need to know you’re still there,

Through the mistakes,

The tears,

The successes,

The failures,

The dreaded questions

And answers they sometimes do not want to hear.

Our kids will forget we were once in their shoes,

Forget we have survived many bumps and scrapes they have yet to experience,

And forget we truly want what’s best for them.

In all of that,

Our kids will know,

That under our protective partnership of loving understanding,

And letting them make and learn from their mistakes kind of caring.

That we are united,

We have the best intentions and

We will do whatever it takes to

Push,

Pull,

Drag and

Guide them to the next level.

We are we.

We are united.

Because they are all

Our kids.