Ah, the teen years...shopping, movies, going steady, staying up late chatting with your girlfriends, cruising Main Street, going to the "Big Game" and "The Dance"...
OK, who am I kidding? Yes, there's time for socializing, but my kids' lives are filling me with angst. It's more like this:
- Homework
- Studying for the "Big Test"
- Working on the group project
- Staying up late texting about who's responsible for what on the group project
- Cruising Wal-Mart late at night, panicked, searching for that last minute item for the "Big Project"
- Doing the dance between needing sleep and needing to study more for the "Big Test" in AP Chemistry
Is it just me, or has high school gotten out of hand? One of our daughters is involved in sports, and the other is not, but both are in honors classes. And both are outrageously busy. When does a kid have time to be a kid? A teen have time to be a teen? Yes, we want them to be prepared for college. Yes, we want them to do well on college entrance exams and hopefully get good scholarships to good schools. Yes, we want them to be well-rounded.
I pray for guidance every day. As I sit here mulling it over, sipping my coffee, It just seems to me that there isn't enough time for them to be kids. Is it just me? They're such good kids. They're really not even complaining, but their teen years are flying by so fast without them even realizing it. Perhaps it's just me, and I'm just getting old...perhaps that's it.
Perhaps.
Balanced Babe (AKA Molly Wendland)
