Make sure they get it. Senior students assume they have to know it all, and they labor under the weight of knowing they don't. They need to hear the truth. No one ever knows it all, and no one ever should. The joy in getting up in the morning is learning something new.
Seniors have whole new worlds to explore.
It's our job as parents to encourage them to jump into the water and swim toward shore. Jim Waterbury and his wife, Carol, are parents of Hawkeye senior Libby and West Waterloo High School senior Dan. They live and work in Waterloo, Iowa.