You don’t actually parent one person, you parent many different people who are all your child. There’s the newborn, the baby, the toddler, the pre-schooler, the primary aged kid, the pre-teen, the adolescent, the full-blown teen, the young adult and then the adult. They all answer to the same name. They all call you Mom. And you never ever notice the inflection point where one of those people turns into the next. You never get to properly say goodbye to all the little people who grow up because you don’t notice the growing, the changing. Except when Facebook sends you those memory reminders that invariably make you cry because it’s like showing you the face of someone you can never see again. Not in that way. Not at that age.”
I am so reminded of this as I met with my youngest daughter and grandson yesterday.
It seemed like yesterday that my daughter was playing with dolls, cats, puppies and singing her heart out on her swing set.
Now she is a mother of a 13 year old boy with growth spurts and changing voice.
They grow up, for the most part, as they should and we can marvel at the good job they are doing with raising their children. Life's cycle at work.
Kiss them and love them, time passes in a blur!
Nana
Comentarios