All parents know that letting your children go, can be hard – maybe even the hardest thing that a person will do in their lifetime. After watching your children grow up, knowing their sorrows and delights, it must be a depressing moment, when you first realize, that your children don’t need you to make their decisions for them or that you don’t have to protect them from bad life anymore, etc. It can be really hard to realize, but you have to, because the process is necessary; the roads must split to some degree for your children to have a good life. We meet this process in the text: “A trip to Grand Rapids”, written by Garrison Keillor.
The story is an interpretation of Roger’s struggle to find out how to handle his almost-adult daughters. It is set on the family’s farm in Lake Wobegon, Ohio. Roger is a strict man, but also a man, with a lot of worries. He is a farmer and as his corn is destroyed by the rain he gets tense and uptight. We meet him in the text during one of the most difficult process in the life of a parent. The process, where you have to let it go, and let the young people decide for them selves.
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