Gordon Flett

I won't need it.

I'm, you know, I'm a tough university student, but it was clear when it was time for us to leave and leave her by herself in Ottawa.

She didn't want us to go.

So on the Tuesday of the second week, she phones and she goes,

You know, that offer of can I come home?

Is it still there?

I said, of course it's there.

And I said, it's a time unlimited opportunity.

Okay.

I said, so I'll drive all the way there and all the way back on Thursday.

It's like 11 hours in total.

And then she says to me, can other people come too?

Because I have four other girls who need to come home as well.

When they heard about that, you had made this offer.

So I had a posse of young girls from the same university.

drove back and just hearing their stories kept me awake and I was able to do the coast to coast to coast trip.

But I want to point out for the parents who don't think they're needed and they're not cared about, when it came time to take those girls back on the Sunday, rolled up into the one driveway and there's a dad out there with his daughter saying goodbye to her because he's going back to Ottawa and the dad is crying buckets of tears and the daughter starts crying bucket of tears and

because they were missing each other so much.

And I said, this is a key thing is like, as a parent, even if you're so busy, just say once in a while, hey, I miss the days when, or I miss the time when, and the reminiscing can make a huge difference.

So I also turned to my daughter who was sitting beside me and I said, she's not going to last at Carleton.