Due to covid, my upcoming sophomore couldn’t find a job here (very restrictive) so she ended up at a dockside restaurant staying at her best friend’s lake house, with jet skis, paddle boards, kayaks, spending her summer with college students from all over. I missed her, but was happy for her (I still had her 17 year old siblings at home, and a bonus 22 year old who came home to lease office space with his HS friends to work remotely, he had an apartment over an hour away but since he graduated, no one was around for the summer). This summer, she will try to find an internship/job related to her major, since she has a lease two hours from here at college, she has more options. This is the plan, once they leave freshman year, they really are never back, it’s heartbreaking, but it means a parenting job well done.
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