You can't spell "Smother" without Mom

Ok, I’m all for being an informed, involved parent. In fact, I deeply respect any person who takes the time to support, encourage and competently raise their child
. . . However. . .
There comes a point when a parent has to (just as our Father in Heaven did) let go. Now, I in no way expect anyone to just drop kick their child and say “whelp, see ya later!”

It’s a process beginning (I’m assuming) with birth. Everyday a Mother “let’s go” a little more.
---She weans her baby because he cannot always survive on her milk (even if he could, he shouldn’t)
---She lets her child crawl, then walk, even if he stumbles and falls. Even if what she’d really like to do is carry him close to her, in her arms.
----She puts her son to bed in his own room / space because he needs to learn to fall asleep alone and she needs to be with her husband.
----She punishes him when he does something wrong and when he gets mad at her for this, she stands her ground, even if what she really wants to do is hold him and make him happy.

A committed, competent mother raises her child keeping a close eye on them, but not holding on so tight all circulation is cut off and the part she’s still grasping becomes numb and dead --to her . . . other words: if you waited till your child is in Jr. High to begin the “separation” process the “gradual” option is no longer available to you and you need to let go and back off. . . now.

I work at a (very expensive) very "preparatory" academy. Now, it being those things, I expect our parents to hold us to a higher standard and expectation than public schools. That’s why they’re paying up the wa-zoo; for a better quality education and environment to “prepare” their children for college, life, next-step and so on. I don’t mind parents calling to meet with their student’s counselor or teacher. I don’t mind parents calling to complain that something happened in school that should have been prevented by our faculty or staff. I don’t mind when parents come into the office and ask for a list of every one of their students teachers, their teacher’s extensions, and their teacher’s current office hours (I don’t particularly enjoy that, but I understand it and I don’t mind).

This is what I do mind: a parent who calls TWICE A DAY (no joke, no exaggeration) to have me pull their child from class and have them call home so the parent can remind the child what homework is due, what the child’s appointments are, and then have them come back 3 hours later (again in the middle of class) to have the child recap everything that happened since their last conversation. Not to mention I get to listen to the child ridiculously disrespect their parent (though sadly understandable) YELLING at their parent to leave them alone, that they know what they have to do, begging their parent to stop call them while they’re at school.
(When the child Is gnawing at the umbilical cord, it’s time to cut it.)

Is this same parent going to follow their child around their college campus, calling their professors and making sure they turned in their homework? Is this parent going to telephone their child's future bosses to see what the work schedule is for that week, then proof read all their reports and presentations, heck, while we're at it, why shouldn't that same parent accompany their child on their wedding night to make sure everything goes alright then too!

• over the top? I think so too.
  
  Also, don’t yell at the receptionist, it not her fault someone forgot their appointment or is not waiting at your beck and call. And It’s not my…uh…her fault if your child has been hiding their report cards and various school notices (you probably aren’t attentive ENOUGH) and she will NOT leave her desk full of piling paperwork, ringing phone lines and a trough of other parents who are itching to complain to her too, to roam about the campus looking for your child because they don’t know how to wait for you at the front and you can’t be bothered to park and get out of your car and look for them yourselves.
  
  Just…everybody be good parents…happy world….happy Paige.