having two grown children
@angelwithkids (1256)
United States
April 21, 2013 5:20pm CST
This week my youngest will be turning 18. It has given me a whole lot of feelings. Mostly, I am very proud of him. He is one of the good boys. He treats girls with respect. He works hard in all that he does. He participates in the JROTC program and is seriously thinking of joing the Coast Guard. He has ambitions to be a police officer. There are moments where I wish we could go back in time and he can be my little boy again. Where I can pick him up and hold him again. As it is, he gets to hold me! I'm just having to reming myself that it's time to start loosening the chains and let him fly.
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@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
21 Apr 13
it is so hard to let our kids go as they grow up and become real men and women you have done your job well if he has stayed out of trouble and he respects the women around him 2 thumbs up to you for raising a fine young lad 
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
26 Apr 13
I'd probably feeling the same way when my youngest reaches 18 years old,too. We really do not make our youngest as our favorites among the kids that we have. But since they are the one that we take care of longer coz the older kids can do things on their own, we make our youngest our baby no matter how old he gets.
@angelwithkids (1256)
• United States
26 Apr 13
I also believe it's because there's no more after them. No matter how old they get, they'll always be the "baby". My youngest sister lived with mom till last month. She's in her 30's. Mom still treated her like a child. I try not to do the same toward my son. I let him know how proud of him I am and appreciate the things that he does to show me how he's matured.
@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
22 Apr 13
I can relate so much when you said: "It has given me a whole lot of feelings." My four teenage sons are now between 15 and 19. I can't tell you how much I worry about them every single second, but I just try my best to appear not so worry as much as I can.
@angelwithkids (1256)
• United States
22 Apr 13
Easier said than done. I still worry about that boy even though I know he's on the right track. I worry about my daughter as well. Some habits are hard to break.
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@jonnagirl (322)
• Philippines
22 Apr 13
Parenting is the most difficult course to undertake. Not all have succeeded in this course. And it is quite true that raising children is not easy , in making them to be a good citizen in the future.
How i wish when i got my own life I can also have a boy like this one. hehe..
Happy mylotting!
@dagami (1158)
• Rome, Italy
21 Apr 13
we are alike. i have only one child, a son who is 23 yrs old already. sometimes i wish he was still a baby because i miss those times very much. babies have charming ways of making us adults feel loved and contented. however, i'm also glad that my son has turned into a fine young man. he is married already and has made me a grandma almost two years ago.
@angelwithkids (1256)
• United States
21 Apr 13
As much as I'm looking forward to that next stage, I just want my kids to be happy first and settled. From having converstations with them, they have also decided that they are in no rush to be parents themselves. woohoo!
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