Renee Bacher, a local writer, has written a column for The New York Times about the difficulties of letting her daughter go off to college. “I used to scoff at overly involved parents. I never did my kids’ school projects or micromanaged their scuffles with friends,” Bacher says. “But just before our eldest child, Hannah, began her senior year of high school, I watched the Excellence in Parenting Award slip through my fingers.” The column serves as a sort of counterpoint to a blog posting Bacher’s daughter, Hannah Smith, made on the Times website last year, about looking at going off to a woman’s college. “I decided that if my daughter never friends me on Facebook, I will be O.K., because I love her enough to let her go. I have no idea how, but I’ll just take it one day at a time,” Bacher says. Read the column here.
Local author pens parenting column for ‘The New York Times’
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