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Gérard Mclean's avatar

All of parenting is letting go, to work yourself out of a job, if we can borrow a phrase from capitalism for anything good... My two are 31 & 37 with young ones of their own. When my youngest was graduated from college, I had this great idea for a parenting book. It would be exactly 18 chapters and just be this long to-do list, each year a few more items are removed until there is nothing left to do. So many parents keep adding to their list as their child grows up but that’s not the job, is it? It’s a hard reality for a lot of people. (Hard for me, too... but being wanted far eclipses being needed.)

I didn’t write that book and probably never will. Neither will either of my kids... too busy raising their kids, though we talk about the “to-do list” and they carry it around in their heads. (If anyone wants to take a crack at the book, go for it!)

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Kevin Maguire's avatar

Wonderful writing this week Katie. I know those feelings and you captured them so well.

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