The Mercury / Monday 9/25/2017 / I have witnessed many fine acts of parenting:

• The mother who sends her adult sons and daughters Mother’s Day cards with handwritten lists of joyous memories about what it has been like to be their mother. She has done this for so long that it was some years before the children (when they were children) even knew they were the ones who were supposed to send her cards.
• The dad who traded in his own car and settled for a used car so he could give his son the sports car his son wanted.
• The parents who each worked two jobs so the two sons did not have to assume significant debt to attend university.
• The single mother who has the wherewithal to leave her daughter’s academic struggles up to her and who encourages her daughter to speak up about what she needs to her teachers.
• The dad who packs his son’s lunch each day for school and who adds an extra pack for his son’s friend who once expressed to the boy that he wished that he too had a dad.
• The dad who taught his son to share without ever saying it but by showing it at every turn.
• The parents who never let drinking distort or shape the way they reared their children.

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