I have a good friend who told me when his first daughter moved away to college last year, he had a strong inclination to pack up his house and relocate the entire family to her college town. I understand the pull. There is always a duplicitous role we play as parents. We strive to make our children independent and courageous and sure sufficient to thrive in this high pressure, chew you up and spit you out world - on the one hand. Yet an undercurrent stays with us as long as we are parents. We want to rush in, to rescue, to restore and resolve. It all stems from running into their room from the age of toddler hood, to show them that there no ifs ands or buts were no monsters hiding under the bed.

And now, 18 years later, this woman child or man child that you have been running alongside for roughly 2 decades, not quite sure if the training wheels would hold - this man is ready to leave the nest and stake the claim. Parents - how will you deal with it?

Mother To Daughter Poems

Let me preface my list by first stating the obvious. You must go straight through this - there is no cut card, no way out. The dignity of it all is that you get to pick your attitude while the journey. That is the major recovery grace. So, here is the list:

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1. Mental and Emotional Preparation. This new stage of life is one that can be designed by you, to some extent. Before the first suitcase is packed, you can resolve to focus. Focus on two things: the memories that were formed while the childhood years and the great opportunities that await your child just on the other side of the door. In focusing on the positives and the possibilities, you are according with life that this is a Good thing and you are selecting to agree with your child to make the best of it.

2. Spiritual Preparation. This is your opportunity to thank God for the safety of the journey thusfar and to cast all of your cares upon Him. If you don't, you can be no ifs ands or buts distraught with worries and fears that you have no ifs ands or buts no operate over. Remember, regardless of where your child is attending school, there is no projection of this world where a prayer cannot reach.

3. Establishing Methods of Communication. Weaning is something that is done in stages - it is not a sudden death scenario. That being said, it will be important, particularly in the first semester, to choose a set pattern of connecting with your child. You may opt to talk on the phone a integrate times per week, and send unlimited emails and texts, and even write a letter or two. As much as this 18 year old may request their independence, their is still a big chunk of them that is so intricately woven into your family fabric, that they will not be able to immediately and thoroughly extricate themselves. And that's a good thing.

4. New Patterns. Point out the fun and unique opportunities still available for the children who are still at home. Remember to not let the excitement and the glamour of the transition of the departing student, thoroughly overshadow those left behind. Otherwise you may have a big pail of tears and lingering sentiments to deal with once you leave the new college campus. Just remember, this convert effects the entire family unit, in one way or other - be in tuned to everyone's manner of dealing with it.

5. Logistics. Bed, Bath, & Beyond, Jc Penny, Apple Store - purchasing these items is no ifs ands or buts the simplest part of the equation - it's just stuff. As a matter of fact, if your pupil is fascinating to other state, you may want to think having the particular store ship the items to the regional store and then you can pick up the items right in that town. That means less things to stuff into your car or a U-Haul. Speaking of which, I recently talked to a college sophomore who told me to tell my daughter - if you are not using something daily or at least weekly, do not bring it - it will just take up space.

The corporeal adjustments are no ifs ands or buts the easier ones to deal with. It is the emotional intangibles that give us more disagreement and indigestion challenges. Kahlil Gibran, in his poem, "On Children", put it this way:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come straight through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

As much as I want to disagree with him - especially by him being a man, he no ifs ands or buts cannot tell to the life long invisible umbilical cord! As much as I want to disagree with him, I cannot. So, as any good mother would do, I choose to take the high road and make this transition fabulous. We have given her the best for the last 18 years - why stop now?

Yours Until Time Flies,

Coach Kim

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Sunday, March 4, 2012