CSotD: Milestones and millstones
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The best part of "Between Friends" is the sense of "Yeah, exactly" that Sandra Bell-Lundy is so good at capturing.
We're used to the notion that a father who presses his son to excel at sports, or a mother who presses her daughter to be pretty and popular, are viewing their children as reflections of themselves, but it's much more complex than that. Our kids, after all, are reflections of ourselves, even in the healthiest and most generous of child-parent relationships.
The milestones get bigger as the kids get bigger. First day of kindergarten. Puberty. High school. Driver's license. And they go further. I mentioned to my mother the shock of my baby turning 30 and she countered with the shock of my older brother reaching 60. And now I've done that, and he's about to retire. Milestones for us, sure. But also for her.
We recognize our children's milestones as being meaningful for them.
But it's inescapable that we also see them in the context of our own lives. And that often has less to do with growth than with loss of youth.
Our youth, that is.
Yeah, exactly.
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