Barack takes driver’s test on Tuesday
Whether you call him your baby, your lit’le man, your son, your boy or the man of the house, when he goes to take his driver’s test, your nervous system is shot to hell. It ignores all efforts to act right. It has successfully conducted a mutiny on your head. A “coup” by any other name….
You are confronting a death! The death of his childish ways. The death of his childhood going into early manhood. You wish with all your heart you could take the test for him.
You try to comfort yourself death comes in many ways. There is the death of an apartment when you move from one to another; likewise the death of a house or automobile or marriage. The mourning period has to take its course; it is part of the maturation process. I am told if it takes longer than a year with little or no comfort, you should seek professional help.
With your son taking his driving test, his first and hopefully his last, you hope he remembers not only the actual hands on driving things you cautioned and drilled him on ad nauseum knowing he is cursing you under breath; you replay the admonishments you showered when you felt something he did was really and positively stupid! And the times - once or twice- you told him you wondered about his driving and decision making skills. You knew you were angry but you justified it with what you considered “tuff love!”
Of course there were times you told him how proud you were of him. You even boasted how he would some days take you shopping or run errands for you or made renewed promises to get him his own car “Maybe for your birthday or Christmas. Haven‘t made up my mind yet”. And of course you know his driving test will not depend on things you said that made him fell good or promises made. State Driving Test are designed for more than that. Much more. Still, you wish.
As you ponder his possibilities of failure, deep in your heart and above all else, you hope he remembers your talks about life and things you have engaged him with all his life. You hope and pray he remembers the lessons and things only parents can teach. “He can always take the test again” you mutter to yourself as you pull into one of several parking spaces reserved for customers taking the driving test.
As your son gets out of the car at the testing station and walks a bit ahead of you, you feel you are going to have a nervous breakdown right there in the tiny office you have entered as you watch him step forward to tell the receptionist his name and sign the clip-board on the counter signaling official notification he is ready to take the state’s driving exam. You notice a faint smile as he comes and sits next to you waiting for his name to be called.
As always,
BB
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You are confronting a death! The death of his childish ways. The death of his childhood going into early manhood. You wish with all your heart you could take the test for him.
You try to comfort yourself death comes in many ways. There is the death of an apartment when you move from one to another; likewise the death of a house or automobile or marriage. The mourning period has to take its course; it is part of the maturation process. I am told if it takes longer than a year with little or no comfort, you should seek professional help.
With your son taking his driving test, his first and hopefully his last, you hope he remembers not only the actual hands on driving things you cautioned and drilled him on ad nauseum knowing he is cursing you under breath; you replay the admonishments you showered when you felt something he did was really and positively stupid! And the times - once or twice- you told him you wondered about his driving and decision making skills. You knew you were angry but you justified it with what you considered “tuff love!”
Of course there were times you told him how proud you were of him. You even boasted how he would some days take you shopping or run errands for you or made renewed promises to get him his own car “Maybe for your birthday or Christmas. Haven‘t made up my mind yet”. And of course you know his driving test will not depend on things you said that made him fell good or promises made. State Driving Test are designed for more than that. Much more. Still, you wish.
As you ponder his possibilities of failure, deep in your heart and above all else, you hope he remembers your talks about life and things you have engaged him with all his life. You hope and pray he remembers the lessons and things only parents can teach. “He can always take the test again” you mutter to yourself as you pull into one of several parking spaces reserved for customers taking the driving test.
As your son gets out of the car at the testing station and walks a bit ahead of you, you feel you are going to have a nervous breakdown right there in the tiny office you have entered as you watch him step forward to tell the receptionist his name and sign the clip-board on the counter signaling official notification he is ready to take the state’s driving exam. You notice a faint smile as he comes and sits next to you waiting for his name to be called.
As always,
BB
Washington Post: 9,000 Troops Will Deploy To Afghanistan Soon After Obama's Speech
Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/28/washington-post-9000-troo_n_372848.html
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