A parent is there, anytime, anywhere
June 23rd, 2007
“Hey mom, are you still up?”
It was close to midnight. I was just dropping off into dreamland when my 19-year-old son called me on the phone.
“Sure, sure. I’m still up. What’s going on?”
I can miss any amount of sleep to talk to my son.
I can drop anything I am doing if my children need me.
That’s the way of parenting.
My son is my firstborn, and since he’s been born, my life is not my own. A mother wakes up anytime in the middle of the night to feed her child. Waking up at midnight is nothing to a mother.
The interesting thing is, the sacrifice is not a drudgery. Is there greater thrill than to be waken up by a call from your son who is away in college? The sheer joy of knowing that he actually called just to say hi without asking for anything would keep me up all night!
There is nothing more important when it comes to parenting than being there for your children, anytime, anywhere, every time they ask for you.
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