What’s your proudest moment or memory you have experienced with your child?

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Mine so far is my kids learning how to ride their bikes for the first time and seeing that pure joy on their faces.

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  2. Dont_Wanna_Not_Gonna Avatar

    I could never pick just one! I’m not one of those “my kids can do no wrong” parents, but they sure have done a lot right.

  3. DickSleeve53 Avatar

    Watching her first play with a deaf girl and then watching them become best friends for 35 years

  4. Opus-the-Penguin Avatar

    I was teaching our daughter to drive. She basically knew what she was doing; but she still had a learner’s permit, so I was along for the ride. I was half dozing off in the passenger seat, only to be startled fully awake by, “THANKS FOR USING YOUR TURN SIGNAL!!!! IDIOT!!!!”

    Seeing my reaction, she said, “Sorry about that. It just bugs me when people don’t signal.”

    I said, “I’m just so proud of you right now.”

    Not long after, we went to the DMV to get her license.

  5. PaulsRedditUsername Avatar

    I took my son on a camping trip across the US when he was 10. Living in the Ohio valley, we don’t get to see the amazing vistas that western America offers, plains and mountains and deserts.

    On day three, we had finally reached the American West where the scenery really opens up. We had been driving in the car for a few hours. I was listening to music and he was sitting in the passenger seat reading a book. Then he put the book down and stared out the windshield for a long while. Then he picked up his phone and made a call. I heard him say, “Mom, I wish you could see this.”

  6. Embarrassed-Cause250 Avatar

    There are so many of those moments, and they keep coming.

  7. jersey8894 Avatar

    My son was in active addiction for 15 years. I had to sign a permanent restraining order against him when he turned violent. He chose to go to rehab, his 5th try, 6 years ago. On his 30th birthday, risking his freedom, the restraining order was still in effect, he called me and said the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard “Mom, I love you. I am an addict and I am bi-polar. I have been clean and sober for almost 6 months, will you go to my meeting and watch me receive my 6 month coin?” Yes my son was diagnosed bipolar at 14 but refused to take the meds. Now he is 6 years clean and sober and doing so well!!! I got rid of the restraining order and I have enjoyed the last 6 years getting to know my sober son!

  8. tomatocultivator1958 Avatar

    When my son was about 10 he was being teased/bullied by this boy at school though it was a while before we knew. It was really bothering him. If you have had that happen to your kids, you know the feeling of helplessness where you can’t really help. Telling them don’t worry about it or it will stop eventually, or even considering going to the school about it doesn’t help. As a parent I was ready to go beat up another 10 year old (not really but you know what I mean). About two weeks after we found out, something came up about the bully kid that a few people at school knew about. Won’t go into it , but it would have been embarrassing to me as an adult and for sure to a 10 year old. Subject of the bullying kid came up on the way to school, I told my son that if bully started on him again to throw the embarrassing thing in the kids face. My son looked at me sort of hurt and said something like “I don’t like what he does but saying “embarrassing thing” is too harsh”. (I don’t remember the exact statement other than he said that was too harsh). Bullying didn’t stop immediately but son seemed to take it better. He is 30 now and probably doesn’t remember this, but I have never forgotten that he was and is a better person than me.

  9. Competitive-Green430 Avatar

    Getting stressed after being told by adult daughter telling after the fact.. about a dickhead she kicked it to touch. Then she said relax dad you did a good job…my drop mic moment

  10. smallerthantears Avatar

    my 22 and 17 yo love to be with us. they love to visit and hang with us.

  11. BKowalewski Avatar

    When my 15 yr old son, who was a pairs figure skater, qualified for Candian Nationals. I was so proud I couldn’t stand it. And he managed it with a back injury he got at his short program.

  12. _Roxxs_ Avatar

    One day a lamp got broken, I had 10/12 kiddos in the house that day, I asked who broke it and heard not a peep, told them if they didn’t tell who did it they were all going on the wall…not a peep, they all lined up and put their noses on the wall.
    I was so proud of them, they stood together just like I taught them.

  13. WelfordNelferd Avatar

    My son got the lead role (i.e. Tom Cruise’s character) in A Few Good Men when he was a junior in HS. It was the first time he dipped his toes into the performing arts, and I’m tellin’ ya…he nailed that performance!

    On opening night of the play, I heard other parents saying things like “Who is that??”, “Where did he come from??”, and “OMG, he’s SO good!” A very proud parent moment, I must say. 🙂

  14. Think-Independent929 Avatar

    One of my children was difficult, to say the least. He seemed to always be getting into trouble at home, at school…always in to mischief of some sort. Raising him was exhausting!

    Sometimes on my way to the store, I passed by his elementary school. One morning as I was driving to the store, I noticed his class was outside doing PE. They were running together as a group. My son was a very fast runner so I looked to the head of the group, but I didn’t see him… I watched the kids go by, but I couldn’t find him. I actually wondered if maybe had been sent to the principal’s office again.

    Just when I was about to give up, I saw him …he was running with a little boy who was extremely overweight. They were way behind the other kids.

    That afternoon when I picked him up, I told him that I had seen him running with the little boy. He said, “I felt bad for him. I didn’t want him to run alone, so I ran with him.“

    My kids have done a lot of things that have made me proud over the years, but this one has always stood out to me. Because no matter how much he drove me crazy with his mischief, he had a heart of gold and he still does!

  15. GothDerp Avatar

    When my oldest came out to me as trans. It took a lot of guts to do that. I’m so proud he could feel comfortable enough to tell me that. Not saying it took some adjustment from me but I am proud to be a trans parent (yes the transparent joke is not lost with us.)

  16. common_grounder Avatar

    Seeing my daughter win top prizes in regional and national musical competitions.

  17. ProfJD58 Avatar

    1st was when my son overcame his fear of competition and skated in his first race. 2nd was when he became the 4th American to skate 1000 meters in under 1 minute, 7 seconds 15 years later.

  18. lotusblossom60 Avatar

    I’m older and had a really horrific surgery with weeks of being really sick. My son just said he was coming (didnt ask, just told me) and stayed with me for three weeks and took care of me. He lives 17 hours away so this is a big thing. When I saw him a year later he cried when he saw me. He said he thought I’d never be well again. (I guess I looked as bad as I felt!) I don’t see him often but I’m proud of the man he has become.

  19. No_Percentage_5083 Avatar

    My daughter and I are/were in the same “business”. My proudest moment was the day she move a position higher than I was able to achieve. She’s moved up several more rungs since, but that one — where your kid does better than you — there’s just no feeling like it!

  20. TooOldForACleverName Avatar

    When my daughter was 6, she asked if she could invite Conner (not his real name) over for a playdate. I knew Conner was autistic, but I reached out to his mom to find out how to make the playdate happen. I asked if she’d feel comfortable dropping him off or just hanging out with me while she played. “What do you do when other kids ask him to play?” I asked.

    “Nobody’s ever asked him,” she replied.

    I was so incredibly proud to be my kid’s mom that day.

    The other time was back when Katy Perry’s “I KIssed a Girl and I Liked It” was popular. My middle school aged daughter said, “Mom, why would people be upset with that song? People should kiss who they want to kiss.” I had never really talked about the subject with her. It was just in her to be accepting.

    Trust me, both of these kids did things that had me tearing my hair out. But these moments were reinforcement that I was raising some good humans.

  21. Lynne253 Avatar

    That’s what I was going to say. My husband was going to but he was sick so I took my son to a quiet dead end street and taught him to ride a bike.

    Teaching him to spit out the toothpaste after brushing his teeth was fun.

  22. implodemode Avatar

    I am just always proud from the day they were born. They are amazing kids. They have done so well.considering their fucked up dysfunctional.parents. Never got in trouble. Never had to kick them out or beg them to come home. I couldn’t pick any one moment. They top themselves all the time.

  23. KimBrrr1975 Avatar

    Too many to list.
    But my oldest son’s graduation from his master’s program is up there. In 2020, we missed both his BA graduation and his brother’s HS graduation, so being able to go to his master’s graduation was extra special. His dad died when he was 12 years old, and watching what he went through to deal with that, get through college, lose his Peace Corps assignment (also due to covid) and just continue to keep pushing forward was (and still is) very inspiring.

  24. PissedWidower Avatar

    It’s extremely difficult to choose one, but I shall never forget the first time I sat in a courtroom to watch my daughter, a prosecutor delivering her first ever opening statement to a jury, completely commanding everyone’s attention in the room. 

    I sat with tears of pride running down my face, and I also felt incredibly stupid remembering how just a few years earlier I worried about her short skirts, loser boyfriends, staying out late and neglecting her studies. 

  25. South_Hedgehog_7564 Avatar

    When he passed his driving test first time. The JOY of it!!

  26. friskimykitty Avatar

    Im proud of my son because he overcame the death of his father at 14, failing his freshman year of high school because of online school due to Covid (he made up the credits and still graduated on time), his mental health struggles and my chronic illnesses and hospitalization for a serious illness. Now he’s 19 and has a full-time job and is doing well.

  27. Turbulent-Name-8349 Avatar

    Getting her out of an abusive relationship by talking her into talking to the police. She really did not want to go to the police and it took a great deal of effort to change her mind.

  28. Baebarri Avatar

    My older daughter was in a photo in Teen People showing emerging trends.

    My younger daughter earned her associates degree six months after graduating high school.

    Proud of both of them 🙂

  29. RonSwansonsOldMan Avatar

    When I caught my teen daughter stealing my Supertramp and Eagles CDs.

  30. SmokinHotNot Avatar

    2 kids. Older son learned to read early on. Throughout preschool and elementary school, kids used to call him Google. One JR high year, all kids in the state were tested, and he got the highest score in the state. Younger son was an early soccer player. Somehow, he learned to kick a soccer ball properly. One Thanksgiving, we were at a turf, public field. An extended family asked my kids to play, so they joined in. Within minutes, the kid keepers were getting scored on with ease, so an adult said, “I’ll play in goal for a while.” It was fun watching my son making him fall down as he walked it in. He played competitive soccer for a couple of years before giving it up.