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How to thrive when your children leave home

How to thrive when your children leave home
How to thrive when your children leave home (Photo: iStock)

Jayne

Experts say parenting is a journey of endless firsts. From the first cry, first step, first day of school-but perhaps the most difficult first comes when it's time to let go. For Mary Wanjiru, a single mother of three, letting go was like releasing a part of herself. She vividly remembers the day her eldest son, Mwangi, boarded a matatu to Eldoret University.

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