You teach your children and family some boundaries, rules and when they are a little older the rules and boundaries should change some, a little longer bedtime, a longer curfew, allowed to do more on their own, and hold mommies hand less. But then as a mom, you have to learn to let those things happen and learn what things to let go of, to learn to just be there when they need you as opposed to hovering all the time to make sure they get it right.
You have to come to a day when you have to believe in yourself that maybe, just maybe, you didn't do such a bad job raising your kids, that maybe you have taught them right from wrong and that your words will ring LOUDLY in their ears when they are faced with a choice on their own and you are not there to tell them "no." Is it okay, to not want to let go? Is it okay to want to hold on, just a little while longer and just peek once in a while to see how you did in raising your kids? Is it wrong of a mother to want to shelter her children from EVERYTHING, all the hurt, disappointment and pain that you know they are going to face, even when they are trying so hard to get it right?
No, it isn't wrong to feel those things. It isn't wrong to want only the best for your children, it isn't wrong at all to want your children to never fall down and get hurt, to never have someone hurt them intentionally or not intentionally, just because. It is never wrong to want to be the best mom possible and to want your children to only face the best things in life and never have to have a bad day. As long as you realize, that with all your heart, no matter how much you want those things for your children, you realize that it can never happen the way a mother plans for things to be in life.
The best we can do and hope for, is that all the choices we have made for them up to a point in their lives, all the teaching, singing, hoping, praying, and guiding we did become a huge part of their heart and soul. That when they are faced with life's real challenges, they know in their hearts what is right and wrong and that they have the presence of mind to choose the right path that God has opened for them.
