A Motherlode blog in the New York Times here has a column by a doctor about how he keeps in contact with this four adult children
who are in college and graduate school.
Most of the comments suggested he was too much of a helicopter parent. He does things like requiring that they call each other at least once a week. A lot of the comments are pretty funny.
It's always hard letting go--letting children go and now,
for us, letting grandchildren go. I've
always loved that poem by Kahil Gibran:
"Your children are not your children . . . "
Our reward is watching our children, and their familie, be
strong and independent--and freely give us love back, without any demands or
guilt-trips from us.
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