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Did your Sailor bring his new "disciplined living skills" back home?
This is a silly question but . . . when your "sailors" came back home--even for a visit---did they pick up their clothes, towels, etc. off the floor and keep their rooms neater than before they went to basic training? I am just wondering if their training stays with them when they get away from the military environment or do they fall back into old undisciplined habits. I am sure this depends on the individual but I would still love to hear your son or daughter's experience. Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Margotgrac on
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Hope so!
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Permalink Reply by sdfavors on
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We will see. My son comes home on Friday. He sounds so much different and responsible. I hope so. He is ready to leave Chicago. I think he is home sick. As far as being neater, I think he will keep his skills because its not a routine.
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Permalink Reply by phoebe stg2 on
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NO!! My son is home for the first time in over a year. He brought nothing new home!! Go figure!
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Permalink Reply by Kat (MM Nuke) on
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NO. my son has been gone for 15 months and has been home 3 times (he's still in Nuclear school in Charleston, S.C.). Not once has he showed any signs of new, improved, disciplined living skills. At first it bothered me, but then I realized that it's his time and he is comfortable and just needs to relax while he's at home. No use getting the whip out on him. :)
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Most times they revert back to the little boy/girl they where before they left...why you may ask...the families at home allow them to do that. A little slap back to reality might help those who fall back into thier old ways...also the families not babying them and allowing them to do as they please just 'cause they are home will help in them staying with their training they where taught.
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Permalink Reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on
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My son was already neat and tidy before he left...he just didn't have to do it so fast etc! So that isn't a worry! He's a reservist so he is HOME! In fact, he cleaned the whole head the other day! I've missed that...he's the cleanest out of all my boys! LOL!
Our "slap" Angie...is yeah...just that...not falling into old ways...all of us. We've all "grown", but we've done it apart ( hubby was deployed while Seabee son was in BC and A school), now we have to put into practice and it is easy to fall back. Son and I had an "encounter" the other day. Ashamed to say that I reacted to something he said rather than acted. Didn't think about the fact that I'd be a bit anxious about it. I am so glad to have him home after so long and at the same time don't want him to get "comfy"! You know?! Such mixed emotions! Have to get control of them though and not act while feeling them! So know that I have to really make the effort as the parent. It's my home and if I want things to go a certain way then it's my job. Plus, I'm not helping HIM any if I allow it...he has made an effort to grow...I love him and want that to continue...even if it meant kicking' his booty out! In other words if it just wasn't working...THIS is my and my husbands home. Yes, you are family, but we have rules (there's not a ton of them either)...if you can't abide by them...okay fine...you are an adult...I don't expect you to be exactly like me...that's the whole point...so now time to have your own home maybe and make your own rules. Then there is the "flip"side of that, the comfy issue...maybe I LIKE having mommy and daddy tell me what to do. So on the watch out for that too! Rather have him out of the house and a relationship...than in it and destroying what we do have. (Hasn't come to that...just sayin'.) Good subject to bring up! -
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Permalink Reply by CorinneL on
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My son has been home on leave twice since he left for Boot Camp in March of 2010. He HAS changed his ways. His room is always picked up and his bed made before he leaves - not every day while he was here though. I would ask if he wants to eat anything special while he's home and he would say no, he'll eat whatever I fix for meals. He would go to the YMCA to workout and then stop and buy his own favorite beverages - even after I would say I'm going to the store and I would buy it. He does his own laundry - which is also new.
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