I don’t think they appreciated it when I was making them do it. Priscilla: And that seems to have served them. So you know I tried to instill in them the value of a work ethic and working for what you what your goals that you want to achieve in life.
I guess I cuddled them a little bit with spoiling them but we were quite financially strapped and you know, coming to a new pair of shoes was not something we took for granted. Linda: Well, I made them work, let’s put it this way. And it takes a mother, each child and each mother has their own relationship, their own experience, and I’m sure you gave them so much that they’re grateful for and so much that you can be proud of. And I also like to say that those children chose you as the mother, you now have 18 grandchildren, you did something really right. And I would I would like to say I honor what you’re saying. Priscilla: Well, Linda, I am a birth worker, actually. So, you know, but it was back in the 70s. I had no clue, right? I let them sleep on their stomachs and I overfed them to get them to sleep and blah, blah, blah, but they both survived. Linda: When I just sometimes you know, you just get so tired. You know, there’s that saying you never know when you’ll hold your child for the last time and, and yeah, so I hear you and I thank you for reaffirming that in my mind. I have been telling myself one breath at a time. So there is light at the end of the tunnel. And then at four months, they start rolling over and their personalities come out and they start sleeping a little bit more, and you put them on a little bit of schedule. That’s right, then, around the three month mark, you know, they start cooing and they’re smiling, and they’re giggling a little bit. And you just got to kind of live through that, in my opinion. And just the difference, but you know, the first two months are just traumatic are mom and baby, just, you know, you just got to go through that. And she’s having her four month checkup today. But given the age of my children, hopefully my last grandchild was born in April. My, hopefully my last, I shouldn’t say hopefully. And I have been through baby stages with all of them. So I have 16 grandkids, I don’t know if you know that.
He is all the things that babies are, you know, he brings me the greatest joy and the greatest challenges. Today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Linda Medler to talk about family, service, resiliency and how dramatically one decison can change the trajectory of you life. Priscilla: Welcome to Voices of Athena, a podcast highlighting the more personal side of the successful women that make up the Athena Alliance- a learning community for executve women. Linda: How does this ditzy grandma who dresses up for Christmas in crazy sweatshirt that she’s been wearing for 25 yearsand sings let it snow, let it snow starting in November, even get to be a 1 star general.
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