Raising Our Kids: How the Clues Were There All Along
Recently I heard two young mothers musing about what their children might be when they grew up. I had pondered the same about my two boys, Patrick and Paul, when they were little. Would they become doctors? Artists? Astronauts? But looking back, I see the hints were there all along.grade and got into Beanie Babies, those miniature plush bean bag toys, a big craze many years ago.
Fast forward 20 years to grad school where Patrick is about to complete a master’s in clinical mental health counselling. When he got into college, he tried several majors but found he loved psychology, especially therapy, which is all about compassion and empathy. Turns out the Beanie Baby phase was a clue after all.
Our first clue for Paul’s future came when we took the kids to Smith & Wollensky’s Steakhouse in Manhattan. Paul sat there at nine-years-old, transfixed, relishing a hamburger with onion rings. As he watched the waiters bustling by with heaping trays of shrimp cocktail and porterhouses, Paul held up his Shirley Temple as if in a toast and proclaimed, “NowEven at a young age, he would try anything new, even exotic, on the menu. “I’ll have the elk,” he once declared when he was eleven.
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