Mother Daughter

Today I managed to catch the Oprah Prime Time show where she interviewed Maria Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Thats Mrs Terminator and her mom. Today's show is all about mother daughter relationship and these two people are one of the best mother daughter team I have ever seen or read or heard for that matter. I mean firstly the have never had a mother daughter fight. NEVER!! Wow thats amazing.

I mean these people are the Kennedys and I would have thought with all the scandals and problems we read we'd thought that they'd be a bit dysfunctional. But no, actually they are a model family and I really like the tips they gave and one day when I have kids of my own I'd read back on this blog and take up all these pointers.

Some of the things mentioned in the show were :-

* All of their children are constantly giving or servicing the people. This is because materials are not a topic which is discussed in the house but what they plan to do with their life and their contributions to the society (er..these are some of the daily topics which were discussed during meal times..phew..)

* There were also pictures of children all over the world, under privilaged and malnourished all over the house to remind them of how lucky they are to have their life compared to others in some parts of the world.

* Meal times are important. Each and everyone of the family members must make it a point to eat together and have 'family time' together. None of the children have personal lines or tv in their room. This is so that they can watch tv together and have more family time together. Plus the children also do chores.

* It is not what we have in life (material things) which is important but what we have achieve in helping others are what success are made of.

* Well behaved women never made history :-))

* When we made a mistake, do not take it as 'our life is over' it is just that our life has altered a bit. We have to keep going on and make the best out of it.

* Eunice Shriver came up with Paralympics which gave new meanings and hope to a lot of special people all over the world.

I really admire them, their spirit of giving and contributing to make the world a better place is not just sweet talk. As we can clearly see they have done a lot and have played key roles in organising numerous charity events and organisations.

This particular episode touched me and forever I now see them in a new light and have greater respect to these American Royalties.