[Loch-Ruadh] FW: Can you relate?

Julie Self julie_self at hotmail.com
Fri May 31 08:31:45 PDT 2002


You have mentioned that.  I just forgot! Sorry.
Gwen


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>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.
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>Sean/Tim
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>From: "Julie Self" <julie_self at hotmail.com>
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>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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