PART OF RAISING children is knowing when to step back. That comes at different times depending on kids’ choices. For us, the transition was marked by our son’s arrival at the University of Arizona as a freshman. Anthony would have new responsibilities, and we needed to surrender those tasks to him. If we haven’t prepared our son for adulthood over 18 years, we screwed up.
“Mom, I’ll do it,” Anthony said when his mother started putting