[Loch-Ruadh] FW: Can you relate?
Tim Cantley
yukon505 at hotmail.com
Thu May 30 16:47:58 PDT 2002
I guess I've not quite made that fully public but I do have one grandchild.
My oldest son, Scott, and his wife Joanna have a two year old son, Justin,
who is the apple of my eye :) He is soooo much like his father. I pray for
their sake he isn't too much like him though ;) DOH!!!! My hopes are that
sometime I'm able to get them to some event so I can introduce them all to
you folks.
Sean/Tim
From: "Julie Self" <julie_self at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] FW: Can you relate?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:46:44 -0500
We have kids. We raise them with love. They love us. We love them. We
worry about each other. "And around and around and around spins the good
earth!" WELCOME TO THE CLUB! Just wait til you have grandkids!!!!!!!!!
Gwenllian
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>This is for us parents out there :)
>
>Sean
>
> >
> > This is so true and all of us have
> > wondered when will
> > we stop worrying
> > about our children. Never!
> >
> > Is there a magic cutoff period when offspring become
> > accountable for their own actions? Is there a
> > wonderful moment when parents can become detached
> > spectators in the lives of their children and shrug,
> > "It's their life," and feel nothing?
> >
> > When I was in my twenties, I stood in a hospital
> > corridor waiting for doctors to put a few stitches
> > in my son's head. I asked, "When do you stop
> > worrying?" The nurse said, "When they get out of
> > the accident stage." My mother just smiled faintly
> > and said nothing.
> >
> > When I was in my thirties, I sat on a little chair
> > in a classroom and heard how one of my children
> > talked incessantly, disrupted the class, and was
> > headed for a career making license plates. As if to
> > read my mind, a teacher said, "Don't worry, they all
> > go through this stage and then you can sit back,
> > relax and enjoy them." My mother just smiled
> > faintly and said nothing.
> >
> > When I was in my forties, I spent a lifetime waiting
> > for the phone to ring, the cars to come home, the
> > front door to open. A friend said, "They're trying
> > to find themselves. Don't worry in a few years, you
> > can stop worrying. They'll be adults." My mother
> > just smiled faintly and said nothing.
> >
> > By the time I was 50, I was sick & tired of being
> > vulnerable. I was still worrying over my children,
> > but there was a new wrinkle--there was nothing I
> > could do about it. My mother just smiled faintly
> > and said nothing.
> >
> > I continued to anguish over their failures, be
> > tormented by their frustrations and absorbed in
> > their disappointments. My friends said that when my
> > kids got married I could stop worrying and lead my
> > own life. I wanted to believe that, but I was
> > haunted by my mother's wan smile and her occasional,
> > "You look pale. Are you all right? Call me the
> > minute you get home. Are you depressed about
> > something?"
> >
> > Can it be that parents are sentenced to a lifetime
> > of worry? (first our kids, and then our grandkids)
> > Is concern for one another handed down
> > like a torch to blaze the trail of human frailties
> > and the fears of the unknown? Is concern a curse or
> > is it a virtue that elevates us to the highest form of life?
> >
> > One of my children became quite irritable recently,
> > saying to me, "Where were you? I've been calling
> > for 3 days, and no one answered. I was worried."
> > I smiled a wan smile. The torch has been passed.
> >
>
>
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