Dear Kyra-Lin,

Welcome home! I loved your columns before you left and I am so happy to have you back writing them again. Congratulations on your graduation and all your awards. I don’t know you but I am very proud of the young adult you are.

I just want to add that my daughter is a newly divorced mom of the three young adults. One is still in school,(19), and the other two are out of college. One is working, the other not. Since the kids don’t have enough money to yet move out, my daughter has created a roommate atmosphere in their home. They all have to take care of themselves and all personal belongings, share in the housekeeping and cooking and be respectful when entertaining their friends. My daughter is in transition in creating a new single life for herself, so it is important to her to maintain a degree of mothering but also to become her own single adult.

You are exemplary in your convictions to help in the home, but still feeling like a child. I suppose that is not an easy feeling to avoid under the circumstances, but you are an adult and I’m sure your parents treat you as one.

I want to wish you good luck in your future endeavors and I will be looking forward to your weekly column.

Sincerely,
Sylvia Harris