I'm absolutely not patient enough!

When my firstborn was an infant, my dad told me he was surprised and impressed by my patience. Now, when this girl is a grown up teenager, I would surely need some patience.

My clothes tend to disappear sometimes, because they are being borrowed. I can live with that. I take it as a compliment. But.... Three days before X-mas my daughter takes my only X-mas cookbook and walks away with it, without asking, without even telling me and then of course not answering her phone!!

Parents don't have to be patient when their kids are infants... what was my dad thinking about? Maybe he meant "I'me happy to see that you're patient, because you will need that in the years to come"???