{"id":2698,"date":"2016-09-20T00:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:33:35","slug":"baby-turns-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2016\/09\/baby-turns-17.html","title":{"rendered":"My Baby Turns 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my youngest was little, I used to tell him a story. It went something like this…<\/p>\n

“I loved being a mommy so very much that after your brothers were born I knew I wanted more babies. I prayed and I prayed only it didn’t look like it would happen. So I said a special prayer to God that if he just gave me one more baby I would never ask for another and God sent me you.”<\/p>\n

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\nOne day when my little guy was about five years old, I hear all three of my boys bickering in the family room. I can decipher from the dialogue that my youngest is feeling the oppression of being the low man on the totem pole. <\/p>\n

He stomps defiantly out of the family room despite feeling powerless.<\/p>\n

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He then walks up the two stairs to the kitchen, swings around to face his brothers and in a moment of absolute indignation declares, “Oh yeah!! Well, mom didn’t pray to God for the two of you!”<\/p>\n

I lock eyes with my eight-and-a-half and eleven-and-a-half year old and we bust out laughing. <\/p>\n

They have heard the story so many times even they find the humor in their brother’s retort.<\/p>\n

He walked right past me with his head held high. I had to smile. It was a moment of child and motherly success. We hope to instill so much love in our children they tackle adversity with confidence. <\/p>\n

This weekend my baby turned 17. He now readies to stomp out of the house and towards his future rather than out of our family room. <\/p>\n

I am reminded of just how much love I have sought to instill in each of my children. A vast amount of love that overflows so generously it can’t help but spill over into the others that they meet.<\/p>\n

And of course, enough to tackle adversity, head held high…knowing exactly who he is.<\/p>\n

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