Car Line

I help in the afternoons loading children into their parent's cars at my school. I've been doing this for almost 11 years now. For the first 3 years of my career I did it in the morning when parents drop their children off as well as in the afternoon when they pick them up. For the last 8 years I've done it in the morning for the majority of the time, but have also mixed in the afternoon for most of this year.

So every day of the school year I get to see how parents and their children interact as they are leaving each other for the day as well as how they receive each other after a day apart.

I've got one thing to say. HANG UP THE PHONE AND LOVE ON YOUR KID. I'm going to guess that in my time of doing car line duty around 50% of the parents that drop their children off and pick them up don't even acknowledge they are leaving the car or getting into it because they're too busy on the phone. Everyone's going to have a day or two like that every now and then, but for the majority of the 50% I'm talking to it's every day.

One day these parents are going to wonder why their children are ignoring them and won't have anything to do with them. Perhaps it's because you ignored them their whole childhood so you could get done what was on your agenda instead of investing yourselves into them.

God be merciful to these kids and to these parents. Help them to wake up before it's too late.