is there a moment when your children stop being children?

Well EsKaren it hit me when they left School believe it or not I cried when I was on my own My Babies had grown up where have the years gone? One thing though they grew into lovely Adults and still loved Mum like they always did and I am very proud of them

I really dont know that they do stop being children they grow wise and experience the wonders and sometimes not so wonderful wonders of the world, little girls soon grow into young ladies and these days much before i believe they are able to cope with the stresses of life. Boyfriends I would say would be the most certain indication of growing up and i believe girls want to leave home before the boys do, as you know my son has recently left home and this time for good hes 25 but i sometimes feel hes still a little boy inside my grandson is 12 and wanting to be let out to play with his mates but i wonder if hes grown up enough to know the dangers of this world. I think each child will have an individual time of growing up I myself am still only learning so have I even grown up yet? blessed be babe nice topic xx

Children must stop being children some day and I know, my own children will soon or later cease to be children. I will know my kids are nolonger kids when they finally leave my home to live on their own. Here what they do with their lives will be something they have thought about very carefully as good for them! It doesnt matter whether they have married or not, but the moment they leave my home to live their own independnt lives, I will know they are adults!

I would say that when they want a place of their own so they can have more privacy. But there again, that's what my daughter wanted at 16 (which was about 20 years ago). But maybe these days, they are more aware of how much this would cost. With me, when I was 16 I asserted my indepence by occasionally staying out all night without phoning home. My argument was that my parents would often be out until the early hours and I used to go to bed and they didn't phone home! I was constantly being told to grow up and act my age and that's all I was doing! LOL. I can understand now how worried they must have been, after all I did ride a motorbike.