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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Orono Weekly Times - 3 INFINITUM Continued from pg2 is the temptation to think that the worry is over and our job is done. When our child started elementary school and I met most of the good friends I have kept for years, we all felt that our most important job, regardless of whatever other responsibilities we had, was to make sure our kids got a good start in life. After all, we rationalised, it wasn't like it was a lifelong job; once the kids were done with Grade 8 they would be at high school and responsible for themselves, so we could stop worrying, sit back and relax. Then before we knew it our kids were at high school ,and we had bullies and misguided teachers and a whole new world of drug culture and peer pressure to deal with, on top of making sure that through their sulking uncommunicative years our kids could still find a way to tell us what they needed so we could help them navigate the murky depths of adolescence, and finally float back into the mainstream, without having suffered much more than acne and a few horrible fashion faux pas. You would have thought being kids ourselves once might give us a better heads up on what to expect, but life being what it is the child that is now the parent has a hard time reconciling the behaviour we get from our kids with the perfect children we once were, and so the generation gap hampers another generation and we become as confused and Members of Terry and Les Caswell's herd of Scottish Highland beef cattle grazing on the farm on Reid Road. frustrated by our kids as our parents were by us in our youth. But somehow parents and kids all muddle through the quagmire of high school until it is time to send the little darlings off into the high flying, character building, independence making halls of academe, in the hope that throwing enough money at an education will encourage our offspring to knuckle down and produce the kind of brilliance that we as parents know our kids possess, just because they are our kids. And you know, as nerveracking as it is to let them loose to fly with their own wings, occasionally coming close enough to the ground to give their parents heart failure, there comes the moment when our kids find themselves as adults, taking responsibility for who they are, what they want to be and what they must do to get there. At that moment, when they soar higher than we could ever have imagined, it is a beautiful thing. Here we are at the House, at that moment, when we have done all we can to give our kid the tools he needs to set out on life's journey, his hard work and our great expense rewarded at last, so now it must be time for us to stop worrying about his future, right? Nope; now we have the worry of him finding a full time paid job to keep us awake at night. We are parents and while our kid has earned his degree in the subject of his choice, we have earned our diploma in how worry for our kids, no matter how old or accomplished they become, goes on ad infinitum. Reduce ~ Reuse ~ Recycle ~ Happenings ~ Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 - Oddfellow and Rebekah Centre, 6 p.m., Advance tickets only $15.00 Contact Connie Hooey at 905-983-1613 Thursday, June 21st, 2012 - Open Solstice celebration, 11:20 a.m, rituals potluck lunch, please bring a chair, plate and fork, 149 Church Street North, All Welcomed Friday, June 22nd, 2012 - Bingo, 7 p.m., Orono United Church Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 - Orono Horticultural Society Basket Sale, Cost per basket $10.00, Advance orders contact Shelly 905-983-5102 or June 905-983-5169 Sunday, June 24th, 2012 - Music Night in the Park, Ina Brown Parkette, Newtonville, 6:30 p.m. start, playing Warren Sutcliffe Sunday,June 24th, 2012 - Decoration Orono Cemetery, Service at Chapel at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 28th, 2012 - Orono Horticultural Society, June Flower Show, Orono United Church, Speakers: Joe and Hazel Cook from Blossom Hill, Topic: "Delphiniums" All Welcome and Refreshments will be served.