What is your most proudest moment of parenthood

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Just that really what was the most proudest you've been of your child ?????

For me, I think my proudest moment was about the effort my son put in. He'd always been really laid back - if he needed 50% to pass, he thought 51% was a waste of effort. Getting him through school and sixth form was a struggle (for me, not him!) and I felt like I was pushing a boulder uphill.

He got into a foundation course for his degree, and realised there were lots there who were better than him. He was studying a practical subject that he'd considered himself great at. When he realised others were streets ahead he could have packed it in, but he completely changed into this young man who worked and worked so hard.

That, more than the grades he got and what he went on to do (all fab) was the proudest moment, that he hadn't given up, but had taught himself to focus and to apply himself, even though it must have been a hell of a struggle at first.

My little boy has special needs and we have soooooooo many proud moments but him fighting to come off the ventilator was the proudest moment I've been as a mommy

I've had so many proud moments, it's hard to pick one! I have always been so proud of their behaviour and manners. I remember one time when my son was 5, and at a parent/child picnic, a little girl sat down and cried because some other kids excluded her from some game they were playing. My son walked over to her, didn't say a word, and just sat down and put his arm around her shoulders to comfort her. I had tears in my eyes, I can't lie. He's 20 now, and he is still the same loving boy.

Getting them to adulthoood without stringing them from the ceiling?

I love the adults they have become and the strength of character they both have.

After every abdo surgery, when an adult wpukd have been full of self pity, he didn't. He learnt and relearnt to role, pull up, sit up, and cruise in that hospital cot. He had three abdo surgeries, 4 months solid in hospital. Thorn he started to walk and he went back in for another. Twice. Every time he just battled through and learnt to dip it again.
He finally walked properly at 19 months - following 5 large surgeries in 9 months

My second son has befriended a severely disabled girl at holiday care. She's older than him, non-verbal, wheelchair bound etc. and has a carer with her all the time, but my 6yo son adores her. Her carer approached me in the supermarket the other day and told me that it made her cry with happiness to see a child embrace Polly (not her real name) without judgement or fear.

Gosh I was going to write when we bought a tumble drier but then I read some of the answers on here and felt a bit sheepish!

Foster kid going to uni

Given the first 8 years of their life I can't explain how unlikely this was