The neighbors

I truely try not to be judgy. I think everybody ought to just do their thang and let me do mine. However, these people in proxmity of are constantly yelling at their kids! There is another lady I live close to and I used to babysit her kids, they are never allowed to get dirty. Its rules rules rules! I watched my Bean yesterday, she had on a bathing suit top some kind of crazy skirt and her gollashes. She was blowing bubbles and was covered in mud. I watched the little girl next door watch my bohemian child with longing. Their family looks perfect. She had a perfect crease in her khaki shorts and spanky white sneakers. She had a jump rope and a picket fence. What she really wants is some dirt, some freedome! The poor kid can't breath and I so badly want to bring her over here and give her some paint or a journal something to express herself. I have taken alot of flack over the years about how we school, how long I breastfed about not vaxing..cloth diapers and an overall reluctance to squash my kids. To that I say NEENER. D is 15, he is a very talented musician. He has an amazing affinity for languages and speaks several moderately well, and German fleuantly. He has tourettes and he likes it lol its part of him. He is kind, he works hard. He respects his Mama. D feels like he's being called into the mission field and he's planning to pursue it. He is very confident in who he is and what he wants. I wish I were that well adjusted. That is because when he was 7 he got a mo hawk, he died his hair blue once. I let him get an earring, and then take it out again. I let him play in the mud in his underwear and didn't tell anybody when he loved Little House but was embarassed by it. He has never had a crease ironed into his clothes, and I don't make him cut his 'fro (even though its a funny whiteboy fro) He wears The Who t shirts to church and listens to Queen and Floyd. This amazing person we've allowed to grow, is totally free range kid.