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My Child’s Life Is Being Threatened
What Is The Right Course Of Action As A Parent?
As a parent, one of my main jobs is to protect my children to the best of my abilities while at the same time, teaching them to take care of themselves.
Every heartache they feel, I feel.
Every physical pain they get, hurts me.
Every time they are upset, I am upset.
I want to sit them in my lap, wrap my arms around them and tell them that everything is going to be okay.
I want to keep them in a plastic bubble to shield them from any evil or hurt that comes their way.
But I can’t.
My youngest son is seventeen. On the verge of being on his own, yet very much my little boy. It’s his senior year in high school, and while he can almost taste freedom, so can I.
Graduation is right around the corner, and all we want is for him to get through the next seven months and graduate. We had thought that would happen like normal, but nothing in 2020 is normal is it?
This past week, my son came home from school and went straight to his room. That’s not too unusual, but got our attention was the fact that it was silent. He didn’t turn on his TV. There were no sounds of video games.