Steve_Martin wrote:
This is quite an interesting topic. As the "worried child", I can't believe some of the comments I am reading here. Really, lie to your kids about a start date for traveling?? Come on now. Christmas must have been fun at your house!
I really like the additude, "I'm gonna do what I want..damn the torpeados, full steam ahead"..sounds like us kids when we were smaller/teenagers. And YOU, as parents, had to figure out a way to stop us from hurting ourselves by providing guidance, encourgement or just plain saying NO. Or maybe, some of you didn't.
Steve, I hear what you are saying. There is a time to hang up the keys. But these folks are in their 70's and are active. To me it sounds like over-protective children who are ready to put the folks in an old folks home on the shelf. Children who do not like their parents traveling and want them home for Their Own Benefit, not their folks.
