Emptying the nest: A working mom’s lessons from a weekend home alone
This column is the latest in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the last installment, about why youth sports drive parents crazy, here.Over Presidents’ Day weekend, my eldest daughter took her 17-year-old sister to tour a few colleges in Northern and Central California. A part of me desperately wanted to go with them — my youngest’s first real college tour! But it was clear that they viewed this as a sisters getaway, and since I am known to proselytize about the…