Kids, Who'D Ave Em? Poem by Laurena Pamela Willetts

We go through the pains of childbirth
Followed by sleepless nights
Then come the tumbles falls and bumps
As they learn to walk upright

Next we teach them their tables
to multiply add and subtract.
We teach them how to tell the time
And to read books back to back.

Next they’re off to big school
how different that will be
Suddenly they know it all
And just wont listen to me.

Next we have the teenage years
With hormones on the rise
Countless tears every month
romances that flourish and die


Next the hardest lesson to learn
Money doesn’t grow on trees
It has to be earned, not easily spent
As it’s not replaced easily.

Next we have the grandchildren
Now how can this be right
I was due to retire next month
But other plans for me are in sight

Retire, that was just a dream of mine
I’m working harder than before
My children get to have a life
whilst I don’t get out the door

To busy bringing up grandchildren
seen that, been there, done it all before
Just didn’t expect to do it all again
don’t know if I can anymore

All the allowances I made for them
growing up and having fun
I only need to make a minor mistake
And it’s mum, ” what have you done “

But would I want It any other way
The answer is a big firm no.
for after all is said and done
Isn’t that what mums are for.

Laurena Pamela Willetts