Yea I know what you mean. One day they are born the next you teach them to drive and shave. Then they go to college, and move off. My oldest will graduate college soon, and has moved out already.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe