Going Gypsy by David James

Author:David James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

I more peaceably dealt with the dangers my children faced by becoming a helicopter mom. Their early childhoods were spent under my careful watch. No roaming the neighborhood allowed. They had a big fenced-in yard, and friends came to our house to play. As they got older and their horizons expanded, I made sure to befriend each of their friends’ parents. Soon we became a troupe of helicopter mommies and monitored our children’s progress together. It seemed we all had parents or in-laws who told us we were being overprotective, but we knew we were right. Our heartstrings told us so.

I had two teens and a tween when we moved to St. Croix, and the timing was good. In Nashville, I was no longer able to keep tabs on the kids the way I used to, and wanted to. They were in three different schools and their activities had me driving for hours every afternoon.

I had the added responsibility, and honor, of taking care of my grandfather in Cleveland and trying my best to help out with my dying mother in California. There just wasn’t enough of me to go around, not in the way my immediate family was used to, or as I was used to. I look back at that period of my life and shake my head. How did I do it all?

Moving to the islands was a lifesaver. The smaller school situation fit our family’s needs—and allowed me to hover in the manner to which I was accustomed. We were a close-knit community at the school; we watched out for each other. The parents knew the other families’ rules—and let each other know if a youngster stepped over the line. If a mother didn’t find out that her kid was messing up by being told straight-out, she could always rely on gossip. Gossip was never in short supply on St. Croix.

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