Avoiding being seen with your parents
Sometime while being a teenager all children, I mean young adults, avoid being seen in public with their parents. It starts before they are able to drive with subtle hints that they want to be dropped off at school or the mall. It mortifies them if you offer to go into any public place with them. After they learn to drive and you fork out the cash for a car they truly have their freedom. Now they can be more sophisticated in avoiding us by just being gone in their car.
My kids, I mean young adults, have taken it a step further by fleeing the country. Several thousand miles is about the right distance to remember the good things about your parents but alas you are too far away to express your true feelings.
Attached is a clever disguise Sarah wore last time she was home in case she had to be out in public with us.
I used to say when they were in town that we were the entertainment of last resort. We were called on to feed them only when all their other plans fell through. I had to keep them on a small cash allowance just so they would have a reason to come see us. We are truly parents left behind.
posted by parentsleftbehind @ 9:07 PM
2 Comments:
Wow! Thanks Dad... but you see, the best thing is that while we are thousands of miles away...able to remember all of the good things about our parents, we are able to share people from all around the world what amazing parents we have, so it isn't THAT bad :) AND, when we get back to the states, we are completely jet-lagged for two weeks and don't want to leave the house really.....so there are some ups to this whole "world traveling" thing :)
haha...you are RIDICULOUS! :) i think i agree with sarah on this one. living overseas has taught me how blessed i am to have a family like i do. it is good to know there is a home to come back to (that is if you haven't sold all my stuff and rented out my room or anything like that!
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