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To: Lost1 who wrote (907)	9/25/2001 1:19:54 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3937

Yes......you sir are a much better parent than I can ever hope to be....<smile> I suppose my philosophy in life has always been - If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, you never lost them at all. If they don't, they never were yours to begin with.... Thru life, it has always worked well for me.... I guess the trick with the kids is, to let them free at the stage of life when you KNOW they will return. If I had waited for her to be 18 before setting her free, she'd have flown the nest forever without a backward glance.... There were a couple of years there which scared me. I was losing touch with her, and everything I did and said, created distances between us. It was as if she had built a wall around herself and my requests, demands, explanations just fell off that wall, i had to talk, argue a lot...Today, she doesn't need to be reminded or told...and is more like my best friend....like no other 12 year old I have seen....by next year I hope I have the honor of being her best friend..... Last year, she was too kiddish, went around telling her friends she wished her mom was as cool as their mom, that she wasn't strict, that she wasn't always so fussy about academics and about a lot of other stuff....Well, I've been promoted this year, being called the coolest mom of all.....provided I color my hair and work on my movie-going skills !!! <Silver hair and I hate watching movies>. The good thing about being a parent is - there is no right way. We all bring our individual styles into it. And let me repeat this....I have to work hard at being even an average parent....you, i think, are tops intuitively and naturally....and I could do with a few lessons...<smile> WhatEverWorksAsLongAsItWorks.com