“She didn’t even look over her shoulder as she was led inside...I was mildly offended but mostly proud.” mrkocnnll reflects on letting go
y daughter started nursery school a couple of weeks ago. She was clearly eager to spend more time with kids her own age, and my wife and I liked the idea of having the mornings to ourselves. It’s early days, but she seems to have settled in nicely. Much more easily than her elder brother, on whom we had to deploy the full spectrum of techniques – bribery, coercion, cajoling, brainwashing – to get him through the door each morning.
Memories of my childhood reticence don’t prevent me from peppering my own son with questions after school. Like my mother, I’m looking for a glimpse of the part of my son’s day that is otherwise invisible to me. And he takes precisely the same attitude towards these questions as I did at his age. When I ask how school was, he says “fine”. Did anything interesting happen? “No.
I’m not sure my father was necessarily conscious of the emotional content at the time. But it had an impact: the conversation encapsulated for me the melancholy aspect of one’s child becoming increasingly separate and unknown.
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