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Everything Comes Full Circle - Got College Kids?
My twenty-one-year-old daughter Maria called me Friday afternoon.
"Mom, where are you?" She is living with her grandparents in the
city for a semester to save money while at college.
"Having a late lunch with a friend," I answered. “Why?”
"Can you come get me?" a sound of desperation in the air.
"What's the matter?"
"It's Grammie," she said. "You don't know what it's like to live here."
Was she kidding?
"No, you don't understand. She is so controlling."
"No. Really?"
"I'm not kidding, Mom. They want to know everything I do."
Yawn. "Uh-huh." Reveling in the feeling of ‘for-once-even-Mom-is-
cool.’
"You have to come rescue me,” she begged. I want to spend the
night at home."
"I'll come get you as soon as I finish lunch, Honey," I promised.
"When will that be?"
As fate would have it the next week my mother pulls me aside at a
family dinner.
“Let me tell you about your daughter.”
Here it comes. “What’s the matter?”
“She goes out and comes in well after the 11:30 rule.”
“No. Really?”
“This is serious,” she said. “She doesn’t want to tell us where she
is going. She acts as if your father and I aren’t even here. And she
doesn’t even want to run the sweeper if we ask her.”
Double yawn. “Uh-huh.” I’m feeling that this is probably better than
chocolate.
“So maybe I wasn’t so bad?”
Silence – deer in the headlights look.
I maintain that if you wait long enough, everything in life eventually
comes full circle. Patience is the key.
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Mary Lee Gannon is a cultural turnaround and leadership expert
who went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children living
in an unpalatable marriage behind the facade of a country club life
to the reality of divorce, homelessness, and welfare. As a national
guest speaker she demonstrates turn-around strategies that
transform corporate cultures and took her from an earning capacity
of $27,000 to the president and CEO of a hospital foundation. Her
book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed Out” is
available in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
My twenty-one-year-old daughter Maria called me Friday afternoon.
"Mom, where are you?" She is living with her grandparents in the
city for a semester to save money while at college.
"Having a late lunch with a friend," I answered. “Why?”
"Can you come get me?" a sound of desperation in the air.
"What's the matter?"
"It's Grammie," she said. "You don't know what it's like to live here."
Was she kidding?
"No, you don't understand. She is so controlling."
"No. Really?"
"I'm not kidding, Mom. They want to know everything I do."
Yawn. "Uh-huh." Reveling in the feeling of ‘for-once-even-Mom-is-
cool.’
"You have to come rescue me,” she begged. I want to spend the
night at home."
"I'll come get you as soon as I finish lunch, Honey," I promised.
"When will that be?"
As fate would have it the next week my mother pulls me aside at a
family dinner.
“Let me tell you about your daughter.”
Here it comes. “What’s the matter?”
“She goes out and comes in well after the 11:30 rule.”
“No. Really?”
“This is serious,” she said. “She doesn’t want to tell us where she
is going. She acts as if your father and I aren’t even here. And she
doesn’t even want to run the sweeper if we ask her.”
Double yawn. “Uh-huh.” I’m feeling that this is probably better than
chocolate.
“So maybe I wasn’t so bad?”
Silence – deer in the headlights look.
I maintain that if you wait long enough, everything in life eventually
comes full circle. Patience is the key.
Follow Mary Lee on Twitter at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “Change – Here’s How!” and
“Overcoming Adversity is an Every Day Slice of Life?” go to Mary
Lee's Artiles and Tip Sheets Page at: http://www.startingovernow.
com/Articles-and-Tip-Sheets.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a cultural turnaround and leadership expert
who went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children living
in an unpalatable marriage behind the facade of a country club life
to the reality of divorce, homelessness, and welfare. As a national
guest speaker she demonstrates turn-around strategies that
transform corporate cultures and took her from an earning capacity
of $27,000 to the president and CEO of a hospital foundation. Her
book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed Out” is
available in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
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