One morning, a mother was seeing her 8-year-old son off to school. She walked him to the bus stop, where they waited patiently. The bus came, and her son boarded. The mother then proceeded to go home so she could get ready to go to work.

About 15 minutes later, the doorbell rang, and her son was at the front door. She was shocked to see him since she had just gotten him on the school bus, and then she noticed the school bus with its door open in front of her house.

The mother asked her son, “What are you doing back home?”

Her 8-year-old son said, “I’m quitting school. It’s too hard, it’s too boring, and it’s too long.”

The mother looked at him and said, “That’s life, now get back on the bus.”

Lesson: Life experiences touch all, no matter how young or old.