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“I was the sun and my kids were the planets”
The bulk of today’s Daily Deac may hit our families in the feels. Many moons ago, back in 2006, Beverly Beckham wrote an article for The Boston Globe entitled “I was the sun and my kids were the planets.” I quoted it in the Daily Deac back in 2006, and I am quoting it again now. This is one of those rare gems that even 15 years later it still stands the test of time.
Here is a snippet:
“Saying goodbye to your children and their childhood is much harder than all the pithy sayings make it seem. Because that’s what going to college is. It’s goodbye.
It’s not a death. And it’s not a tragedy.
But it’s not nothing, either.
To grow a child, a body changes. It needs more sleep. It rejects food it used to like. It expands and it adapts.
To let go of a child, a body changes, too. It sighs and it cries and it feels weightless and heavy at the same time.
The drive home alone without them is the worst. And the first few days.
But then it gets better. The kids call, come home, bring their friends, fill the house with their energy again.
Life does go on.”
As I approach having to take my own (and only) kid to college, this article is hitting me in ways more personal than professional. I hope you like it.
