The childless defeafening silence
Today was my daughter’s first day back to school after an eight week summer break. For all the times I wished for silence while she was home, it has been hard to adjust to the silence now that she is back in school. As per usual, I snapped a photo as she stepped off into the future that lays ahead.
I find that I constantly remind myself that I don’t want to “Cat’s in the Cradle” my daughter as she will stop asking to play in just the blink of an eye, yet it is a struggle I live with daily. Do the other parents go through that same struggle?
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Yes, I go to every school function, have lunch at least once per semester, often more. Having grown up with parents who didn’t know which grade I was in, much less who my teacher was, I am determined to do better. My poor daughter, she will probably look back and say “crap, I wish Dad had gotten a real life!”
Nick
3 Aug 09 at 15:00