Comments on: Learning to Let Go

By: Lisa Reynolds

Lisa Reynolds — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:29:12 +0000

I understand letting go completely. My youngest is 12 and has been visiting another girl a lot this summer. The other evening when my daughter came home, she said that she and this girl had been riding bikes in the park. At the involuntary look of horror I gave her, she said, “It’s OK, her dad came with us and watched us.” The shame of it is that when I was 12, we went all over the place. Two or three of us girls in the neighborhood would walk to the park to go swimming, walk up the street and cross a busy intersection to go to the local plaza, and walk 8 blocks to the library. My mother never worried about us or thought twice about letting me go. In today’s world, though, I worry so much, and I think it’s a pity sometimes that we feel we must overprotect our children, yet when you see the news and see the things that happen to other people’s children, you kind of want to lock them up and never let go. It’s very difficult raising children today. I loved the blog!

By: 48now

48now — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:51:59 +0000

I know what you mean. It was very hard for me to let go, but I’ve learned how and now I’m okay about it. I have three adult children, 22 year daughter and 27 year old twin sons. My daughter is away at college and my oldest twin is married with kids and the younger twin is working with my husband and me in the church here. My husband who is ex-military (Army) would always tell me, will let the kids grow up and stop babying them and I would say, ‘I’m not going to apologize for being a mother, I still need to do part and let God take care of the rest. That was actually my prayer whenever they would leave the house, ‘God they are out of my site, but they are in Yours, so please watch over them’ and I would have peace until they returned home ~ So God has helped me greatly in learning how to let go and let Him ~

By: Eliza Ferree

Eliza Ferree — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:30:12 +0000

he says the tires was the worst part of the trip. He’s all, “Man I finally get to go and something happens.” I did explain that was nature telling him to be careful and not to go fast. He just grinned and said yeah right. lol

By: Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:18:07 +0000

Are you blogging about it yet? Oh that is funny. The girls are the same way. (Mom! Don’t write about this!) I’m very glad that he made it safely, but so sorry to hear about the tires.