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Peggy Nardini was so sad when her twins left for college last year that she kept the doors to their rooms closed. When she recently dropped them off for their second year away, she felt the same pull at her heart. “That initial moment when you give them that hug goodbye, when you walk away from the dorm and back to the car without them – that was awfully hard,” says Nardini, 48, a secretary in Madrid, Iowa. Her son and daughter go to different colleges about two hours away from home. “You want to teach your kids to fly out of the nest,” she says, “but you don’t want them to actually do it”/Megan K. Scott, AP. More here.
Question: What can parents do when children leave the nest?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Bent on September 21 at 9:58 a.m.
Party!!! Sure we miss having all the kids around all of the time, but there are some real benefits when they finally leave as well.
For instance, we took out a bedroom and expanded the living room area when our first one left… When the second one left, I began to notice a real savings in the grocery bill…
Aliasjax on September 21 at 10:21 a.m.
Move.
hereinidaho on September 21 at 12:37 p.m.
They can make love on the kitchen table.
Cindy_H on September 21 at 12:47 p.m.
@FHB Oops! You’re supposed to wait until they move out?
hereinidaho on September 21 at 12:58 p.m.
That’s just what we did since it seemed like they were ALWAYS around.
Bent on September 21 at 1:12 p.m.
Lol…