It’s time for fresh starts and new beginnings. Our children are growing up and each new school year heralds new opportunities, new challenges and new choices – which basically means that as parents, we’re faced with new opportunities, challenges and choices, too.

I don’t know about you, but there are moments when I’d really like to freeze my kids in a hold-that-thought kind of place while I sit down and ponder what he said. Or what she said. Or did. Or what her teacher or his orthodontist or coach said or did. And maybe Google the subject.

Oh yeah, and what would Mom do? I imagine calling her while my son holds- that-thought a little longer, in a Jim-Carrey-esque pose, his face contorted in an exaggerated expression of teenage angst.
Hmm, and what do other parents think about it, I wonder? For a fleeting moment I consider posting my conundrum on Facebook so my “friends” can weigh-in.