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Hi dg,
Just got home from a two-week trip to the UK to take in a wedding in Scotland and, even more mportantly, to wave off our elder daughter who's just left her job in Cambridge to embark on a five-year teaching based PhD in up-state New York. I empathise, really I do. And I could write reams.
She phoned an hour or so ago for the first time since we got back. My lovely wife was in tears. It doesn't get any easier but remember - it's our CHILDREN'S life that's involved here, not ours. Cry a little, dg, but keep going forwards.
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Thanks Colin and Fred. Funny thing is it didn't bother me at all until today when she started hauling furniture up from the basement, and I realised she meant it. quote: but I never thought beyond trusting the little so and so to learn how to do her own laundry, not get lost on the way to the bus
See, this is exactly what's going to go wrong. I just know it. She hasn't got a clue how to live on her own. Your poor wife, Colin. At least my daughter is only an hour away. Still, think of the neat trips you'll get to make to the US.  |
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quote: She hasn't got a clue how to live on her own.
Well, she either blooms or wilts. You've given her 18+ years of direction, now she has to go it alone, both in school and life. As an empty nester with two kids, I've found the older they get, the smarter I am...I think that's a paraphrase of a Mark Twain line. Anyway, it will be a good learning experience for her, and I think she has the ability to make it. |
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quote: Originally posted by dg: My eldest daughter leaves home for art college tomorrow, and I am so anxious! We are very close and I worry for her. She'll only be an hour away, but has rented an apartment because there were no places in the college housing. She is very naive, having lived in a small town all her life and attended school with the same people since pre-school. I know she has to do this for herself. She's a talented artist and has had the dream of attending this particular college since she started high school. But I know this is going to change her. Just wondered what other people's thoughts were on seeing their kids leave home for the first time. Or your feelings on leaving home for college, if you can remember that far back. I know I didn't give a thought to my parent's feelings, when I left home. I was just so excited to get away.
I have full sympathy with you. But after all it is the question of her career. |
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If she's that incompetent and incapable of rational thought and responsibility, it can only have come from her mother.(Writes Fred 'Agony Aunt' Proops-Puli) On the other hand.....