{"id":19982,"date":"2021-05-24T21:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margiewarrellold.flywheelsites.com\/?p=19982"},"modified":"2021-05-24T21:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:59:18","slug":"trust-your-wings-you-can-do-hard-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/trust-your-wings-you-can-do-hard-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust Your Wings. You Can Do Hard Things."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week was an exciting week in our family. My oldest son Lachlan graduated university and my youngest son Matthew graduated high school. Matt\u2019s graduation was all the more special given that of the four graduations in our family over the last 12 months (including my son Ben\u2019s high school graduation last June and my PhD graduation in January), this was the only one that was done in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covid-19 has made us appreciate many things we\u2019d previously taken for granted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt\u2019s graduation was also very poignant for me given the huge disruption he\u2019s had to navigate during his high school years, including attending four high schools across three continents in the span of 14 months due to our family relocations with my husband Andrew\u2019s (former) employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The morning I dropped him off at the boarding school he has just graduated from in California was one of the hardest parenting days of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt had begged us to let him leave Singapore and move 10,000 miles across the world and despite our many reservations, Andrew and I decided to trust that, while he was only 15, he knew himself well enough to know that he was not going to thrive in the very academically-focused educational environment of Singapore.  Yet that final hug goodbye wrenched on my heartstrings. As my fiercely independent 15-year-old waved me goodbye, I fought back tears until I got to my car where I sobbed for a good 30 minutes before I could even manage to start the engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n