If that was my child...

I was half listening to Nancy Grace at work last night. They were talking about that little Lohan girl being a drug addict. Honestly, I don't really care about Nancy or Lohan. It was a mother who called in who grabbed my attention. I believe her statement was, "Nancy.. If that was my child, or yours I know, she would never end up like that". For just a second, I wanted to reach through the phone and slap reality into her cheek.

I have 6 children. All raised the same.. pushing the same morals on all of them. Loving them each the same. I want nothing but good things for them all. I want a life full of good memories and for them to grow old in happiness and content. But I would be a fool to believe that they have no control in how they choose to live. And unless you've walked in the shoes of the mother that has chased behind her child begging, pleading, crying and fighting the drugs that are put in their face everyday at school you have no reason to judge them. Lohan not included in that. ( I hated her being a child actress years ago because I felt that was unfair) But addiction is different. Out of my 6 children, 2 have found their way to doing drugs. I can promise you it was never something I looked the other way on. It was not something we didn't discuss. It was not something that I as a mother could find a way to control. I've chased my children.. walked into parties and toted them home.. driven the streets at all hours of the morning.. sit in the hospitals while bodies were stitched back up... and prayed alot. Of the 2 that chose that life, 1 has chosen change. (He starts military school in July by his own request) and the other I am still chasing after waiting for the child I thought I had raised to resurface.

That lady.. and her uneducated comment just puts me over the edge!

"If that was my child.." exactly what would you do?

What I have learned...

No matter what your child does, you keep praying and loving them.

No matter how much you lead and guide them... they will still have to find their own way.