They Never Check on Me

It would be a ventured guess on my part, but through the years, from the time we were nothing but a blob of DNA in the proverbial oven, and we were checked on an almost constant schedule. Were we ok? And most of our mothers would do what ever was necessary to make sure she was healthy, which in turn, meant that we were also healthy.

When the time arrived for what was now a baby to exit the oven, our mothers would experience a large amount of pain trying to get us out, and into this all new adventure we were about to experience. Naturally, we had no idea what the heck was going on…but our little brains were like a sponge. Automatically, our neurons (brain cells) would soak up an enormous amount of information that would help us survive in what was going to be an on-going learning experience.

We would soon learn that some things were too hot to touch, that we could fall down and learn how to get up, and would keep on exploring everything around us, no matter where we were, or who we were with.

As we added a few years onto our lives, our neurons would some how relate to us that there are some folks that we don’t like for some reason or other --- our gut feelings were now activated. What ever it was, we wanted nothing to do with them!

Of course, we eventually became teenagers, and we were constantly looking forward to being with others our age…mostly because the boys discovered girls, and the girls discovered boys. And if we were lucky, our parents would continue to check on us and make sure we were alright. But for some reason or other, we resented that they would, because we thought we were now adults, and many of us also thought we had all the answers to all of the worldly problems. What happened to our parents? Didn’t they trust us?

The world kept on turning one revolution a day, and continued to orbit our sun at almost 17,000 miles per hour…and then we soon discovered that we had some walking, talking blobs of DNA ourselves…and we checked on them on a regular basis. But when we did, they would get upset, and sometimes downright mad, that we did. And we resented that they would have the audacity to do such a thing --- don’t they realize that we do it because we love them? Don’t they realize that they still have no real idea how fast things can go wrong?

I knew a father who had custody of his son, and they lived in a small town. The father wasn’t the smartest man in the world be any stretch of the imagination, had almost flunked high school, and was going through quite a lot of mental and emotional stress at the time his son was a teenager…but what he did know was that he loved his son dearly. He didn’t have much of a personal life, because he wanted his son to know he loved him, and was always on his side.

Being in a small town, he made it a point to know all of the police officers, and a lot of other folks, because he knew that sooner or later, that almost anything his son did, he would eventually find out about it. And the father also checked in many other ways. In fact, he went a little over-board with it. But it paid off!

On the son’s 30th birthday, standing outside his son’s and now wife’s home (around 9pm) the son, right out of the blue, told his father that he had checked on him way too much. Taken off guard, the father began to try to explain…but the son interrupted him and said "Thank You!" Naturally, those two words made everything the father went through worth it, because the son and his wife, are today, really wonderful human beings that any parent would be extremely proud of.

So folks, whatever you do, and wherever you go, please take the time out of your life to check on your children…it doesn’t matter where they are, or what they are doing. Sure, they will resent it, and believe that you don’t trust them --- but keep doing it anyway…you will not regret it!

For I cannot begin to tell you how many times a teenager has said to another adult, or their friends, that, and I quote word for word "My parents don’t care about me, they never check on me!"

So I ask you --- where are you children, who are they with, and what are they doing? Imagine what you will discover next!

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