How to deal with your kid leaving • Buttondown

Our children should know that we had lives before them, during them, and after them. If for no other reason than they need role models of how to live a life. Which gets lived until the very end.

I love every part of this post. My oldest will be a senior in college this year. My youngest is off to Europe for the summer (after his college freshman year) in about 48 hours.

Shit gettin’ real.