Buddy, Can I Have a Smoke?

It's great when parents can be friends with their grown children. It makes you feel like you did something right. The DH and his son are fishing buddies, smoking buddies and beer drinking buddies. They can sit and reminisce for hours, laughing like loons, hashing over their myriad trips to the river or family vacations. When our children make poor choices, we have a tendency to question our parenting skills, but must remember that they need to make their own mistakes. All we can do is hope that they will be as wise as we are someday!