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PARENTING⎢FRIENDSHIP
An Impromptu Phone Call Revealed to Me He’s Not Only My Son but This
They learn to walk and soon to drive — but it was this special, parental transition that caught me completely off guard
Ever notice how we can often miss the sight of a bud and yet, when the tree blooms and its color pops right before our eyes — we can’t help but be surprised by its wonder and arrival?
The bloom of the relationship with my eldest son is transforming right before my eyes.
For a while, the budding of this transition was hidden and well-protected until recently, when I realized as a mother —the bud revealed its bloom and color. It was absolutely brilliant!
My eldest son of three boys has completed his fourth year of a 5-year engineering program.
He had somewhat of a crash-and-burn at the end of his first semester. I don’t know what his advisor was thinking when he told my son to take calculus, physics, chemistry, and engineering all in the first semester — but my son did NOT heed my warning.
I told him, “That course load is madness.”
He gave me the oh-mom-it’s-okay comment along with, “I have to do it this way.” Sadly, he…
