Dive
As children grow older they progressively separate themselves from their parents. This isn't a bad thing, it is part of their own preparation for life. Still it can be a hard and at times torturous process as they reach for independence and still want security. As parents, we do our best to provide security but know in our hearts we have to let them go. For most teenagers their ambitions and activities take them away from their parents. I would look rather odd riding around in the back seat of my son's friends car. I would most certainly at best wind up in traction and at worst kill myself if I ever tried to step on one of my son's skateboards or long boards. Still I think we as parents try to think up activities to keep our children close to us. Often they are things that we desire more than they do and the activity itself becomes a torture to the very child we want to hold close. In a sense our very attempt to be with our child drives them further away. I