How Mom Raised Mike // Stories of Parenting, by Deloris Jordan

"I kept thinking: He's only 19 years old. He's not ready to becut loose to make his own way alone in a big city like Chicago."

She's the mother of the world's most famous athlete, and shehas written a new book. In Family First, by Deloris Jordan withGregg Lewis (published by Harper San Francisco), Michael Jordan's momexplains her philosophy of parenting, as told through anecdotes abouthow she and her late husband, James, instilled values in their fivechildren in Wilmington, N.C. An excerpt:

Children are so anxious to grow up. At least all mine were -especially Michael.He was always a big kid compared to my other children. Hecaught up to and passed his older brother …