Probably not when they are freshmen. One of our college freshman wanted to come home this weekend. So on Thursday, I drove to pick him up. The freshmen do not have cars at school. Yesterday, he ran the streets most of the day and then asked if a few friends could some play video games for “a few hours”. They got home at 11 pm. The dogs woke me at 5 am this morning. The kids were still playing video games. This means he will be useless today. I thought he was coming home to rest and study. Yeah, right.

I have been able to suspend some of my worry about where they are and what they are doing. I hope and pray they make good choices. I talk myself into thinking they are doing pretty good in making choices. Then they stay up all night playing video games and I am back to square one.