Several
years ago my sons and I watched a movie titled Unaccompanied Minors. It was a
fun family movie about kids traveling on a plane without an adult accompanying
them. The kids got into plenty of mayhem.
As my boys have
transitioned from youth to independent teens, there have been more than one
unaccompanied minor scenarios. Most recently my fourteen-year-old son went
swimming at the neighborhood pool with a few friends.
It was a
humid August day and remained that way well into the evening. My son had been
gone a couple of hours so I decided to stroll over to the pool. What did I
find? There were several unaccompanied teens hanging out at the pool.
A couple of
girls yelled out my name and waved to me as they waded in the pool. The boy
standing by the edge of the pool with my son gave a polite greeting. Everything
seemed orderly. I walked the mile back home and settled in for the night.
When my son
arrived home from the pool, I had a few chores for him to do.
“I need you
to put a load of clothes in the dryer, move your football equipment out of the
living room and put the dishes away.”
He paused
before responding then said, “My ankle hurts, I can’t do that much walking.”
Am I to
believe that this unaccompanied minor injured himself after I left the pool,
walked a mile home, entered the house in high spirits, then suddenly couldn’t
walk through the house?
What are
your thoughts on this episode?
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