Son leaving for college

When your firstborn goes to college, he piles his things in the car and hugs his little brothers goodbye. “Why do you have to go?” The littlest one begs the question and one more game of catch. “It’s time for me to go. It’s time for me to be a man, get a job, and do the best I can. My body is done growing, now it’s time for my brain to grow up too . . . and then maybe someday I’ll have a family and kids just like you.” “Why do you have to go?” The next brother...

(For those with quiet empty nests, here’s a letter I wrote to my son years ago.) What do you mean you mailed a college application? Get back down on the floor and play with some Legos. Do you…

iReporter Deborah Mitchell writes a letter to her son as he leaves for college.

I remember my 19 year old self. Feeling like home was different but school was still a foreign place. Until it wasn’t.

Somewhere along the way as I was raising my family, I lost sight of my dreams. And I realized that all of my dreams included other people.

I survived college drop off - sharing some things that I learned in my journey of sending my oldest son off to school.

I will do it. I will say goodbye. I will let him go off into this big world and make a life for himself. Please don’t tell me it'll be fine.

Prose about leaving soon, going to college/university, growing up and missing hometown

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