There isn’t just one answer or word for it. For me, it is almost indescribable. How do you convey an emotion into words when it is a physical or mental attribution?
My 13 years old son have been away for the full three weeks at the end of the summer, and in his returns, he is no longer just my boy but turning into a young man. His voice breaks whilst he was away. It’s almost like missing his first walking steps in a way but in this case, have he turn into a different person without my acknowledgement?
One of my very first pictures with my new digital camera (then), few weeks before I enrolled myself onto HND Photography course. He was 7 then!
I love this saying: “A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does – and about two years after he think he does!”
At this next stage of my son life, I know society & circumstances will play a very big part in his life and only he can then decided where he will go along with the current of that life. I am just hoping that he will acquaint us with his growing principles along with our guidance, because I can just see that, it is almost out of our control.
There is this poem that I love, by Julia Johnson Davis and it’s called:
To a Young Son
In your face I sometimes see
Shadowings of the man to be,
And eager, dream of what my son
Will be in twenty years and one.
But when you are to manhood grown,
And all your manhood ways are known,
Then shall I, wistful, try to trace
The child you once were in your face?
You know, I have a nickname for him from when he was a baby, and it’s always been the same “cuddly cud”.
Taken on our wedding day by my other half’s uncle. 🙂 He was 6 then!
And I will, for the life of me, cuddle him so!
Katrina Gwynne-Jones 
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