Defining moments occur throughout life, and for a teenager who is leaving home to live separately from the parents at a college or university, this is one of those moments. Depending on the young person’s maturity, leaving home is one step in becoming self-directed.
However, parent’s counsel and help should continue until the young person’s maturity has advanced. Sending young people out the door with love, trust, and respect is a recipe for potential success in their academics and in future relationships such as marriage and family.
Parents must be willing to step forward and initiate appropriate boundaries throughout childhood and adolescence, which later will help a young person to leave home with peace and the parents’ blessing. “Bring up a child in the way he or she should go” and they will stay with that framework as they advance in years.
This is God’s promise for parents and a sure hope to hold onto.
Start
children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will
not turn from it.
~Proverbs
22:6 New International Version
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