Parenting Chronicles

My daughter has been asking to do things on her own.Interesting that every time she does I get this feeling of both pride and fear.I live in a city where security is questionable even in the best of estates.So here I am four meters behind her while she walks home.You would think I wasn't here because of the way she keeps looking before crossing a path.Or the way she is avoiding  walking directly towards people.I am thinking she is okay doing this everyday:walking home from school that is.But the truth is it is scary to let our children go and no matter how much we pretend we want them to need us.So am gonna walk many meters behind for very many days in the foreseeable future. Parenting has no manual so we just wing it and hope our best is enough for our children.