Adolescence Angst
Nov 21st 2007 | 8:53 am
#16
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 10,630
From: Red Deer, Alberta
Re: Adolescence Angst
We have left a daughter behind also, it breaks your heart to do it but at 20 she could have left home to go travelling herself, so whats the difference. You just feel guilty that you have abandoned them. My one hope is that she will be learning to make decisions herself now and find out about the real world and just how much Mum and Dad did for her.
We have just booked her flight over for a visit at Christmas and her reply was wheres my ticket, wheres Heathrow, how do I get there from Stevenage????
Now she has to start thinking for herself and working these things out herself, but I guess I will probably end up getting on the net and finding out the best way for her to travel.
We are only communciating by e mail at the moment and some text messaging as she only has a mobile phone in her digs and doesnt have her computer connected to the net yet, and that makes it hard. You just want to give them a hug.
We havent been here long but feel quite settled so far despite the distance between us. Hope it works out for you.
We have just booked her flight over for a visit at Christmas and her reply was wheres my ticket, wheres Heathrow, how do I get there from Stevenage????
Now she has to start thinking for herself and working these things out herself, but I guess I will probably end up getting on the net and finding out the best way for her to travel.
We are only communciating by e mail at the moment and some text messaging as she only has a mobile phone in her digs and doesnt have her computer connected to the net yet, and that makes it hard. You just want to give them a hug.
We havent been here long but feel quite settled so far despite the distance between us. Hope it works out for you.
Nov 21st 2007 | 8:58 am
#17
Arrived at last!!
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,354
From: Bragg Creek, AB
Re: Adolescence Angst
Thanks for that I will pass it on to her. Just had e mail from her to say she backed into someones car and what should she do??? Brand new car bought for her before we left, scratched by someone with a key on one side within the first week of having it, now this. Paid for the scratches to be repaired but she will have to sort the insurance business out for herself now, all part of the learning curve!!
