Changes and One Hell of a Year
Three of my son's friends have moved on to high school. I think that last summer was the last summer that they would all be hanging together as fierce as they did for the past couple of summers. High school brings about many changes. One change is more homework and less free time. There is less time for old friends and more time making new friends such as girlfriends and boyfriends. I told my son that things would change with his older friends. They are two grades ahead instead of two if my son had of been born before December the second the cut off date for kindergarten that year. So, after summer vacation was over and they all got new bikes to bike to school instead of walking like they did in middle school it changed.
The first big change was that they were not coming home at different times rather then the same time and they all started at different times. So, instead of two of them walking home together and stopping near the window at 4pm to yell my son's name and laugh one comes home at 3:30 and goes directly inside his house and doesn't say a word to anyone unless my kid is outside already and he will yell a hello as he ascends the stairs leading to his house. The other two friends, one plays football now, the one I least expected to play, because all summer long he acted like he hated football with a passion and was more into soccer then anything else, but nonetheless, he made the football team and has practice almost everyday after school so he doesn't come home until after 5pm on most days. If he comes outside it is when it is almost dark around 6ish or so and that is basically to say hello as he passes by walking his dogs. Now, the last one he has gotten "girl crazy" during the summer and he comes back around 5ish from school. He doesn't really say why it takes him that long so who knows?
Mr. 3:30 has tons of homework that takes him about 4 hours to do when he factors in the breaks and the time to eat snacks in between and he has found a girl whom he likes and likes him so you have to factor in some texting time too. So, that young man you will rarely see outside on the weekdays and on the weekends he is not quick to come out either because he has his chores on the weekend's sometimes homework and of course church on Sunday and a girlfriend in between.
So, after school, after my son finishes his school for the day, which is usually around 3pm depending on how much he has to do he is usually outside by himself. He hasn't gotten used to this quite yet that his friends aren't around as much but he has been trying to adjust to it. He has a few younger friends that he plays with, scooters with and skateboard's with a couple days out of the week depending on what they are doing. Some have after school sports too.
Along with his body, his friends are changing too. He is learning quickly that things never stay the same. The world changes, and people change too. I hope that this year nothing else changes for the worst. We have had enough of the bad changes and forced to adapt to them since we couldn't do anything else but just continue on.
All I can say is when this year is finally over I will look back and he will probably look back to and say it was one Hell of a year and not necessarily in a good way.
The first big change was that they were not coming home at different times rather then the same time and they all started at different times. So, instead of two of them walking home together and stopping near the window at 4pm to yell my son's name and laugh one comes home at 3:30 and goes directly inside his house and doesn't say a word to anyone unless my kid is outside already and he will yell a hello as he ascends the stairs leading to his house. The other two friends, one plays football now, the one I least expected to play, because all summer long he acted like he hated football with a passion and was more into soccer then anything else, but nonetheless, he made the football team and has practice almost everyday after school so he doesn't come home until after 5pm on most days. If he comes outside it is when it is almost dark around 6ish or so and that is basically to say hello as he passes by walking his dogs. Now, the last one he has gotten "girl crazy" during the summer and he comes back around 5ish from school. He doesn't really say why it takes him that long so who knows?
Mr. 3:30 has tons of homework that takes him about 4 hours to do when he factors in the breaks and the time to eat snacks in between and he has found a girl whom he likes and likes him so you have to factor in some texting time too. So, that young man you will rarely see outside on the weekdays and on the weekends he is not quick to come out either because he has his chores on the weekend's sometimes homework and of course church on Sunday and a girlfriend in between.
So, after school, after my son finishes his school for the day, which is usually around 3pm depending on how much he has to do he is usually outside by himself. He hasn't gotten used to this quite yet that his friends aren't around as much but he has been trying to adjust to it. He has a few younger friends that he plays with, scooters with and skateboard's with a couple days out of the week depending on what they are doing. Some have after school sports too.
Along with his body, his friends are changing too. He is learning quickly that things never stay the same. The world changes, and people change too. I hope that this year nothing else changes for the worst. We have had enough of the bad changes and forced to adapt to them since we couldn't do anything else but just continue on.
All I can say is when this year is finally over I will look back and he will probably look back to and say it was one Hell of a year and not necessarily in a good way.
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