Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Bunn, NC (Near Raleigh)
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My son (16), our neighbors son (18), and two of their friends from school went coonhunting tonite. School nite/Work nite and they get in at 11:55, bad nite, cold track, treed in a biggggg swamp, but had the coon. I knew they were fine, but the father in me stayed on edge once 10:30 rolled by and they were not home...I would have been with them but my wife worked tonite so i was home taking care of my other kids.
Maybe someday I will not worry about him? or is this a lifetime thing for us parents, only to be replaced by concern for Grandchildren?????
On the positive side I am proud of these boys hunting when there are so many their ages hunting nothing but trouble....

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Registered: Apr 2007
Location: maine
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That is a lifetime thing. My son is in afganistan and I wory all the time even lay awake worying nights.

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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: BRIGHTON, TENNESSEE 30 miles north of Memphis
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It's a life long thing, I am pretty sure of that. I am a grand mother now and my momma still worries about everything I do..

About staying on edge until they get back home. I do the same thing. Mine are 19 and 23. Both have lived away from home but are now back due to loss of jobs. The upside is that the hounds are getting hunted several nights a week since they have come back home. The down side is, I am not getting any sleep!! I simply can not go to bed until themand the hounds are safely home tucked in bed.

Oh and grandbabies...lets don't even get started about the worries there!!

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Registered: Jun 2007
Location: Williamsville,Virginia
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All that that tells me is that your guilty of bein' a good father.If the worrying ever stops---- now thats when you should really start worrying.
Rob Gregory

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Registered: Apr 2007
Location: virginia
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Originally posted by demondog
That is a lifetime thing. My son is in afganistan and I wory all the time even lay awake worying nights.

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Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
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its a life long thing i have 2 boys one turning 39 20 th of dec the other is 36 i still worry about them and both are married with kids its just a fathers instinct to woory about thier kids and family

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Massachusetts
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..we NEVER stop worrying... Our youngest is 16... He had Bob pacing the other night when he "ran away"... he walked in the frigid cold... to the next town and "turned himself in for running away" at the police station... where Bob went to pick him up and bring him home... (Kids...) our oldest is 22 and lives away from home... we still pace over him on occasion as he works away at college... BUT NOW... We are worrying and pacing...as my 90 yr old mother is an hour away from here... with a big snowstorm expected... we've already been on the phone with her this morning, making sure she has someone there with her, the cell phones charging, food, water etc....

Moral of the story... first we worry about the kids... then we worry about our elders... and grandkids when they arrive...
Good people CARE about others... Thoughts and prayers for all of you who have children and relatives in tough situations, wars etc... We will help by SHARING your pacing!
Heather and Bob

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