Parent-Child Journeys Present a Few Pitfalls
"Under the horse chestnut tree", 1 print : drypoint and aquatint, color ; (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There's a time to teach, to show, to model... and then a time to let go... ----- TOM BRADY The parent -child bond is fraught with emotional and physical trials every step of the way. But what happens to the parent nearing those final days of nurturing? Madeline Levine spent her career as a psychologist and a writer – and mother – with the belief that her job was to prepare her three sons to live independently and enthusiastically move into adulthood. But now that the youngest of her three sons is out of college, and the older two are doing just what she wanted for them all along, her reaction surprised her. “How odd that I should be blindsided by a sense of loss as my sons move fully into lives of their own,” she wrote in The Times . “Some part of me must have known that each move toward independence – from zipping a jacket to hanging out at the mall...