The Home Base
- Keeping up with the Joneses has taken on a new meaning: our kids better be as good, or better than, our neighbors’. We have the urge to produce better kids. We might feel like we are are failing, because in the run for worldly approval, child Jones is successful, and our child is not.
This entry is originally from a letter I wrote to our daughter last March. The idea was generated at the start of a spin class, (as in cycling) when the instructor asked if anyone knew much about St. Patrick. Ever the homeschool mother, I volunteered what I knew. What I didn’t say, and what niggled at me the rest of the class was, like me, struggling with a child moving away from home, St. Patrick had a mother too.
