Thanks to seeing this on Rebuilding Rob’s blog, I also am using Eric Foltin‘s prompt for today. Eric, I tried to subscribe by the way but it wouldn’t let me! I hope it’s okay that I’m hijacking your prompt. What responsibility did you think would be gone by now?
Anyone who is a seasoned parent, and maybe some of you who aren’t all that seasoned, might laugh at this, but when I first became a parent in 2001, I honestly thought that once your kids grow up and turn 18, your job is done. Parenting over. Finito.
I thought that once they become “adults”, you can bow out and they completely take over running every aspect of their lives.
I know this now, to be completely foolish. My oldest kid is just a few months shy of 25. Just the other day as I was about to fall asleep she messaged me and asked for my Bluecross health plan information as she was filling a prescription and didn’t want to have to pay.
I just can’t shake them. They’re like puppies with their teeth in my pantleg. Don’t get me wrong, all three of the older kids are in their own ways, making their way in the world but it really surprises me just how much they still rely on me.
I’m not complaining. Not really. Maybe I am a bit. But will they ever actually go away? Just come to visit not needing something. Call to see what I’m doing and not because I need to rescue them?
This is what you sign up for I guess. I had no idea.
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