I have a friend Susan, who has a son that is grown, and she is having the same trouble as I am as far as letting go. You raise a child to maturity and here he is not knowing nearly enough to survive this world. And us parents we have learned so much that "if" our children would listen, we could teach them so much. But they as we all did, want to do everything their own way. It's hard for us as parents to let go, and let them make mistake after mistake. We want to jump in and rescue them out of all their troubles and ills. David will be 24 the 19Th of this month, just three days away. And it has took me this long to realize that by helping him out of all the messes he gets himself in, is just enabling him to repeat again and again the same mistakes. I'm letting go, just as I have with my other four sons, Kenneth, Donald, Bobby & Michael. It's time that David be responsible for David, and Mom and Dad to stand in the background and watch him either succeed or fail. What ever happens, he will know that it was he himself, and he alone will take the credit or the blame.
At sixty years old, I'm finally finished with raising children. hmmm What now? all I've known ever since I was seventeen years old has been taking care of, and raising children.
hmmm.
love hugs kisses
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