When Children Leave the Nest
By Xavier Bage
@franxav (13603)
India
March 21, 2023 6:21am CST
Don't children make the home a happy place! They fill their parents' lives with gladness. What is a home without the voices of children. It's a heavenly experience for the parents to see their children grow up .
And one day they become adult and strong enough to fly away from the nest.
Isn't it sad for the parents when all their children leave them in their old age?
I have not been through this part of life but I see parents whose children are not with them. In some cases, their sons and daughters have totally abandoned them.
Is it a sorrow we humans are condemned to?
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@ShyBear88 (59282)
• Sterling, Virginia
21 Mar 23
I wasn't sad when I finally left home, yeah sometimes part of me wants home but home is wherever a person makes.
I can't say as a parent currently that I would be sad when my kids leave home. I think its more like fear of the unknow, scared of what might happen without me but also, I probably would be happy. I'm defiantly that parent that gets excited for her kids to go school for 6 hours a day. Parenting for a lot of people comes unconditional love for them.
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@ShyBear88 (59282)
• Sterling, Virginia
21 Mar 23
@franxav I wouldn't say it enables us to make scarifies you don't need to love someone to do what is right for the other. Unconditional love and scarifies are not hand in hand.
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@jimmy423 (245)
• Davison, Michigan
21 Mar 23
@franxav My daughter is 11 years old and I always think about when she gets older and has to go on with her life. It's really sad. We have a really good close bond so I think she'd visit often. I miss when she was a baby and she was just starting life.
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@popciclecold (35084)
• United States
21 Mar 23
You see more and more of it. It is heartbreaking.
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@franxav (13603)
• India
21 Mar 23
Yes, we see more and more of it . We have a section in our charity where old people are taken care of. We meet many such parents.
@Juliaacv (48415)
• Canada
21 Mar 23
Our son moved out to a city about an hour away from our family home when he was only 23 years old.
But it was because he got a really good job in that city, and he worked very hard in university to get good grades in order to get a good job.
We all knew that the day would come, and we remained in that home for a couple more years, but eventually sold it as it was a good family home but a bit too large for a couple.
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@leighnyork (1880)
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21 Mar 23
This is also something I have never understood. Is this the reason why some parents don't want to let their child move out of their house?
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