Sending adult children on their way
It’s not only small children that adults of a certain age can be sandwiched in between.
My prepositions, however, seem to need to be sandwiched inside that last sentence.
Adult children can often hang around, sometimes not by invitation, when their parents are expecting to move into a different phase of life.
Bend Weekly News has some tips for Sending adult children on their way.
I’m taking mental notes as my middle child (age 11) already wants to go to college in town and live at home so he doesn’t ever have to move out.
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1 opinion for Sending adult children on their way
Pete Sampson
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:01 pm
He’s 11. Of course he doesn’t want to move out. He will when the time comes.
Our only child Elizabeth used to say she wanted to attend the little community college a mile from our house. When the time for college actually came, however, she chose a school about 150 miles from home. When my wife and I dropped her off and drove away from the campus, we were in tears about halfway home.
After a few nervous phone calls during the first semester, Elizabeth was fine. So were we. She now lives about 300 miles way. We are very, very close–and all very clear that she has her own life and we have ours.
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