We think we know best, but it is amazing how much we can learn from our kids. These teenagers that create so much angst, can actually teach us some incredibly valuable lessons. When we loosen our grip on needing to be right, how can we grow from being open.

Sending your first born out into the world, splits your heart in two. It is exactly what you want and how you raised them - to be independent and start their own lives, and it rips at your heart knowing his home will never be under your roof again, but instead, home must be the memories in a chamber of your heart.