Personal Narrative: My Interview As A Parent

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Lynn and I have been friends for seven years. I asked her to meet me for a drink so I could interview one of the most effective parents I know. Alongside her husband they have raised the greatest kids I have seen in today’s society. Recently this family underwent a big change that affected them all. They sent their eldest daughter off to college this fall. She is a very intellectual, poised, and mature 18 year old. But their nest is far from empty. They still have their two sons, 15 and 10, to care for. With the departure of their daughter came the unexpected arrival of loneliness, change, and most notably, eerie silence. Their daughter filled in the gaps where they did not know there was space. With her absence it is painfully obvious. But they are learning to adjust. Genevie`ve Bouchard calls this the launching phase. The …show more content…
Her answer made perfect sense to me, but one that could only be experienced firsthand. She explained how when you have a child, the love in your heart does not divide into loving your baby this much, your husband that much, your mom and dad, and everyone else in equal parts. When you hold your child for the first time, your heart doubles in size. You truly do not understand the capacity to love someone so fiercely, so unconditionally, so instantaneously for no other reason than they were born. In response to being asked how parenting influenced her other relationships, she smirked. They had their daughter while still in college. This created a huge gap between her peers. Only a few friends remained in contact, though it was sparingly. Also unique to their family’s situation was that Lynn and her husband were both the youngest of their siblings, the first to get married, the first to have children. And yet they were always being offered unsolicited advice from their siblings. This brought the two of them closer together as they became a united

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