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First Day of Class

teen driver adhdThe line of cars was long as I waited to pick up my son from his very first day of class. I craned my neck to see him, wondering about his first day. Did he make any friends? Did he have enough to eat? Was he nervous – afraid?

And then they let the kids out, and as I saw my son, my firstborn, my eyes filled with tears. It seemed just yesterday that he was born, and now I was sending him out into the world. For an irrational instant, it seemed I was sending him to his doom. The new experiences and challenges he was facing seemed more like new danger and conflict. I thought about the cruel world he would soon encounter, and I wanted to put him back into his child seat, drive away, and never let him out of my sight again.

Yet I knew I had to let him go. If only the separation weren’t so heart wrenching.

I was the next car. Ashamed at my sentimentality, I brushed my tears away, put on a big smile, and greeted the child of my heart.

“Hi, son. How was Driver’s Ed?”

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About Kayla

Kayla Fay is a freelance writer and the mother of four boys, three of whom have been formally diagnosed with the inattentive type of ADHD. When she started “Who Put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet?” in 2002, her sons were ages 8 through 14, when her life was a “progression of dirty laundry, lost homework, misunderstood Algebra, and a whole lot of love and fun”.

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