Unbearable loss.

What do you do when the worst thing that you can possibly imagine happens.

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It’s the club no parent wants to be a member of. It’s literally your worst fear as your child starts to grow and get more independent. Part of you wants to give them free rein and another part of you wants to stop time to keep them as your sweet, little ones forever. Let me protect you, so no one can ever hurt them.

Parenting has so many firsts…

Remember the first time you dropped them off at day care and then sat in your car and cried in disbelief. Or the first time you signed them up for kick and chase, so excited to get to be a part of a team with other young parents. Or the first homeroom where you volunteered to lead the class field trip so you could spy (just a little) on them at the pumpkin patch. Or the first time you coached their pee wee team and realized it was more like herding cats than “coaching”. Or when they got their first phone and you spent hours trying to figure out how to monitor them safely without being overbearing. Or the first middle school dance, where they didn’t want to go, but you prodded and then hoped they made the right choices that night and didn’t end up smoking in the bathroom or being one of the kids who got caught drinking. Or how about the first time they opened up to you about a school crush or frenemy? And who can forget the nerves of making the high school freshmen team? Who was more unsteady, you or them? If they didn’t make it, what were you going to say to them that would take away the sting? That sport had been such an integral part of their childhood, how would they (and you) recover?

Parenting has so many firsts. But it also is chock full of lasts.