Like Mother Nature,
I let your children, your cubs, your bird babies fly
Again, never to return home.
Some folks gather around and that’s nice.
Still others turn their children loose on the world
To follow where their desires take them
Nature is the latter
In that showing our cubs and dogs and cats and nestlings how to cope,
Then setting them free to find their destiny in the world,
Nature’s way can be quite satisfying.
As parents you must be present to win.
Later you need not be physically present to win.
🎶Teach your children well.🎶
Does the mother bird feel grief when her fledglings fly the coop?
Does momma bear feel loneliness or the pride of having taught her cubs well
As she chases them up the tree of separation,
Then wandering away - satisfied they have learned.
Teach the children well. Then trust their decisions.
Set the children free to seek the world.
Then revel in vicarity!
tom tenbrunsel
A Carl Sandburg Writer
Author’s Note: Here I’m just saying that whether your family hovers or disperses, it is important to teach them not dependence but independence and interdependence on how to be their own person and how to live interdependently with others/spouses/etc. Launch them free from the bonds of the parent. Respect and freedom come from loosening one’s hold on another.
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