Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers who went against their initial maternal instincts, the ones that screamed
No!!!! What are you, nuts? Sending your kid across the world for almost a year? To live with complete strangers? You don't even let your kids spend the night with a local friend unless you know the family. And the drinking! Isn't it legal to drink and smoke beginning at thirteen Over There? What about The Terrorists? She can't be safe! Seatbelts! Do they have seatbelts? Who will make sure he goes to church in the Godless country where he'll be living? What if he comes home married because the only reason his host family signed up was to marry-off their daughter so the whole family could move to the United States? To your basement. She'll meet a boy and decide she can't live without him and burn her passport so she can't come home. You won't know her friends so how will you know if she's hanging out with a recreational shoplifting ring? And the unsupervised piercing possibilities!
No, instead you sucked it up and sent your kids on their merry ways, realizing that if they've made it this far you've probably done a decent job up till now and there's no reason (well, little reason) to assume that they'll jettison everything they've learned in the last 16-18 years at the first sight of a smoky bar with no discernible limit on the drinking age.
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