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Friday, May 9, 2014
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dress-up high heels and fake fur coat. “That has mom’s jewelry in it, you know,” I told them. The boys ran — like the Boogey Man was chasing them — to get a ladder from the garage. When mom got home, both my brothers were standing on top of the twostory roof. The purse, of course, did not have jewelry in it. It’s scary now when I think about that through the lens of a parent, but those are some of my fondest memories of my brothers. For years, moms and dads intervene and choreograph their children’s lives and relationships with one another. Then that crucial day comes when mom goes to the grocery store alone, and the siblings left behind really start to bond. This is when they form memories of their own, separate from mom or dad. Except, my oldest son/free
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and 11) to babysit me when I was in first grade, but I suspect mom has had second thoughts 30 years later when she hears the stories. One time, Will chased me around the room with the sprayer from the kitchen sink. To get him back, I threw a whole bucket of water on him in the foyer. We had wood floors. Another time, Will let me hide in the bushes with him to spy on and identify neighborhood pranks who planned to egg our house. It was 10 p.m. on a school night. I was barefoot and in my pajamas. Mom never knew. I also remember Van and Will calling me into the living room like it was an emergency. “Sarah, quick! Get in here! Hurry!” I’d come running and sliding down the hall, scared out of my mind — the type of running you do when the
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As the kids get older, there are some things, thankfully, that get easier. One of these is doing errands — alone. This is, in fact, so far the only hope I can offer new parents: Someday, you will go to the grocery store alone, and it will feel like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” No arranging babysitters. No car seats. No screaming, “He’s breathing on my side of the car, Mom! Tell him to breathe on his own side!” Of course, this type of freedom only comes when you have a child who’s old enough to be your free babysitter. I’m sorry, I mean, once you have a child who’s old enough to have the opportunity to care for his younger siblings and learn things like responsibility and time management. The universally accepted age for this privilege is 12 or 13, but it depends on the child and the age of his would-be charges. My brothers, Van and Will, were certainly old enough (14
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