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Parenting

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts) Sat Jan 7, 2012, 07:37 PM Jan 2012

Letting go. (sigh) [View all]

Perhaps the hardest part of parenting is recognizing that a child is an adult and you've moved from authoritarian to adviser. Two of my three daughters are 18+ now. The third is only a year and a quarter away. I'm feeling old.

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Letting go. (sigh) [View all] HopeHoops Jan 2012 OP

Hugs MuseRider Jan 2012 #1

more hugs. Melissa G Jan 2012 #2

Thanks. The eldest is spending the entire next semester in Budapest. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #3