Parents --What I've learned in 4 years

Bill0510
Sat, 02 May 2009 11:43:22 +0000

Remember . . . this is their adventure.
You can be excited. You can be proud. You can even be middle-aged envious. But this is their adventure.

They get to make mistakes. The get to do well.

Don’t put soooooo much pressure on them about how prooouuuud that myyyy sooooonnnnn/daauughter is in teh NA.

The results can be disasterous.

I don’t care to guess that these instances are more than a few dozen, but be aware that more than a few mids have ahd to go home, in disgrace, to find a community that went overboard in supporting them.

Let your mid have some space. Let them prevail or fail as the case may be.

Do a little searching on the internet and you will see a current example where a mid who is not graduating but intead is beginning a jail sentence because, she claims, teh pressure was too much.

BE SUPPORTIVE. Balance yourself.

I’ll let others chime in for a bit.