<p>Our four-year-old starts school in September. Terrifying.&nbsp;</p> <p>She&rsquo;s starting high school.&nbsp;</p> <p>He&rsquo;s getting ready to leave home and go off to university.</p> <p>I bought them each a pair of skates at Canadian Tire. And one of them has just been drafted by the North American Hockey League.&nbsp;</p> <p>We have two players&mdash;my daughter and myself. But now I&rsquo;m losing a player.</p> <p>It&rsquo;ll be tough letting her go.</p> <p>It&rsquo;ll be hard to watch her leave.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m sorry.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s just that... I&rsquo;ll miss him so much when he&rsquo;s not home.</p> <p>She knows that I&rsquo;ll miss her a lot.</p> <p>Opening his bedroom door and realizing that he&rsquo;s not there anymore.</p> <p>She told us that she&rsquo;s both excited and nervous.&nbsp;</p> <p>He will benefit from it and he&rsquo;ll be so excited.</p> <p>Actually, he&rsquo;s not going that far&mdash;it&rsquo;s mostly the fact that I won&rsquo;t see him every day.&nbsp;</p> <p>I think he will probably&hellip; he will miss me&mdash;I think he&rsquo;ll still miss me.&nbsp;</p> <p>I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ll cry on the first day.</p> <p>That little girl with her backpack hanging down to her knees, climbing onto the school bus. That&rsquo;s how their future begins&mdash;by going to school.</p> <p>I hope I&rsquo;ve prepared him enough and he can get through the next chapters himself.&nbsp;</p> <p>We&rsquo;ll lose him for two or three years.</p> <p>Cole, on your first day at school, I want you to know that your mom and I love you very much.</p> <p>Make the most of this opportunity and have fun.</p> <p>To fresh starts. Very cool.&nbsp;</p> <p>We asked parents what they felt about their kids starting school.&nbsp;</p> <p>To fresh starts.</p> <div><br /></div>