AIBU to be feeling so proud of my son tonight?
I can’t say in real life as not sure others will get it!
He’s been doing some voluntary sports coaching in the summer holidays while he waits for his GCSE results.
I’m proud of him for that as he’s been working hard, but today he came home and was telling me that he’d been working one on one with a little boy with some physical disabilities and autism as well.
I commented that that was quite a lot for him to manage and I was a bit surprised that the little boy could attend a mainstream camp (not being mean, but I know from friends that often their children with autism find it hard to access holiday clubs.)
He just shrugged in that nonchalant way teen boys had and said, ‘not really. He’s a bit slower than the other kids, but there’s loads he can do if I just adapt the training for him a bit. He loses his temper sometimes when he loses, but who doesn’t? I just have to be a bit more patient but it’s worth it when he does well - and then I can say, see you can do it!
I tear my hair out with him sometimes because he’s so laid back - especially with schoolwork. But tonight I had a bit of a moment where I saw the kind and decent man he’s becoming and I felt so so proud.
Just wanted to ask if others sometimes have these moments of pride and revelation that make all the worry and stress of parenting so worthwhile? And what they are!