Letting them fly.... literally and figuratively

oh my gosh!!

 

I think that would be pretty scary for me, too. I spent time last night and this morning tracking my son's flights from San Antonio to Charlotte to Roanoke and those are big commercial airlines. Those little planes make me really nervous. But I'm sure for him it was a fantastic adventure!

 

Totally understand your panic. Those are the kinds of thing I want to hear about "after" and not during! And hmm, there is that other thread about things we have never done... but it in combo with this one, reminded me of some of the stupid things I did as a young person. Some my parents will never hear about....

 

Yikes...my daughter just went home to Japan. The flight from Detroit was 13 hours. I always worry, but even arriving in the connecting city, taking a train and then a taxi, she was a pro. sigh!

 

My daughter's very good friend was in air cadets in high school and got her pilots licence then. She took Diane up a few times with her and it definitely made us nervous but we've always encouraged our girls to try new things so it was pretty difficult to say no.
Actually, motor cycles worry me a lot more and our son-in-law has one.

 

Yes, letting go and letting them fly is so very tough.
We should start a Mama support group?

 

OMG Tracie, are you kidding me? I totally understand.... those engineers are problem makers (me and hubby are engineers and let me tell you we got in a lot of dumb things trying to be smart).

 

I went up in a tiny prop plane last year (beach take off and landing to go whale watching) it was only a 20min flight - that was the max time for me - more that it was so noisy and made me feel motion sick than any fear. Took my youngest up as well and he hated it so no more small plane flying for him for a while...

When our oldest son went on a gap year, he started in Russia and we knew he had to leave the country by a certain date - he had told us that he was getting the train to Lithuania. This was the week a plane crashed in Russia killing a hockey team. I remember having to reassure his younger brother than Matt was fine - not flying anywhere... Turns out he had secured a very cheap flight - on a very dodgy airline - so glad I didn't know until he had safely landed! Just have to keep telling yourself that plane travel is in reality safer than a car...

 

I understand completely Tracie, but the pipers are fine. My Uncle owned one for years and we went in them all the time. As long as they are with a licensed Pilot and are not doing crazy things then he should be fine. I know how upsetting it can be especially now a days. Hugs.

 

Man...that makes me anxious just reading about it.

 

I pray more for my kids now that they are adults than when they were home with me! It's partially a control thing! It's also that they seem to need more prayers!

 

I'm glad that you all survived it. Let's hope that it's too expensive for them to do that too much AND next time tell him not to snapchat about it until it's over so you guys won't have to stress out about it! Lol!

 

@tkradtke OH Tracie! That sound like our son a few years back! Always pushing the envelope with stuff. But this- your son- was actually safer, LOL! Like Karen said- maybe they won't be able to afford much of the flying. Prayer always helps!

 

Tell them to swing by & pick me up!

 

Yep, me too....would have been jumping out of my skin. When my hubs went skydiving this year I was a nervous wreck but kept it to myself so I didn't dampen his fun and luckily it all went without a problem. But, I am secretly hoping he never does it again.

 

Honestly, that's one of the hardest parts of parenting! Everyone talks about how hard it is to parent babies and toddlers, but the real fun begins when you're dealing with human beings that can do things way beyond the span of your control. I was a "good kid" ... and still managed to do things that I would totally cringe at if my kids were doing. I'm glad everyone is safe!

 

Our oldest daughter graduates high school next year and she's talking about moving away.... I don't know how people do this.

 

We have a dear friend from university, also an engineering major (hmmmm...) who began flying when he was just a teenager. His dad started him with flying lessons at a small airport near Glenview (Illinois). He belonged to a flying club at the U of I and he took us up in a plane many times, although never at night. He was methodical, serious about flying and I always felt totally safe. Jeff ended up working for Honeywell up in MN until he recently retired. He has also had his instructor license for almost as long as I've known him. I've also been on small prop planes thru work, although Jeff's planes were always just four seaters.