The term just dawned on me while I was waiting for my adult children to visit me on the occasion of All Saints Day and All Souls' Day, feasts that Catholics hold dear to commemorate the death anniversaries of our loved ones. Once the children become old enough and go their ways to practice their careers, the only way to let them be is to let them be. The need to see them more often or request them to o what you have in mind will have to be discussed according to their schedules. Being an elderly parent is very hard in this sense. Elderly parenting is no easier than young parenting.
Life however is like this for my parents felt the same way when we then, their adult children preferred to work away from our birthplace and discovered new territories for us to bloom and develop our own ways. Our visits were rare especially when the children came one after the other. Once in a while we called our parents to solve some of our marital problems by acting as "referees". In the end we were truly left on our own to take care of our families.
To this day life really makes us realize before it is too late that parenting is a vocation. We can only offer our adult children to our God for protection. We can only let our loved ones - especially our adult children - be and become who they want to be and what God has in store for them. Elderly parenting may be difficult or not very easy but it is the way and we can only accept it with love.
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