Summer is over, the school year has begun, and untold parents from across the nation just mortgaged the family farm and dropped tens of thousands of dollars on the barrelhead to send their children to college.
After spending nearly two decades “training up their children in the way they should go,” good moms and dads from coast to coast rolled up this week to their children’s respective campuses with the U-Haul in tow, They moved little Suzy or Sam into their new dorm room, loaded the fridge with snacks, cried a bit at this new stage of life and how quickly children grow up, and then handed their precious progeny off to the current leaders of the Ivory Tower.
The goal here is presumably a high-quality education that will lead to good marriages, successful careers and responsible citizenship. What mother or father wouldn’t sacrifice everything to see their child succeed in all these areas of adulthood? Isn’t this what raising our children right is all about?
