'Overnight he went from a sweet little kid who showed me love every day to a quiet, temperamental walking stick of dynamite.'
and stopped doing some of the things she’d loved before. I needed to be her support, her safe place to vent whenever she needed me. She needed encouragement. There were days when she’d come home from school and ask me to lie on the sofa with her for hours.
She is a completely different child and needed different things than my son did. There was no way I could brush it off and think,She needed different things.prepared me a bit, but it certainly didn’t make it any easier the third time around. I really struggled when my youngest got moody and acted like everything I did was stupid and embarrassed him. He’s my last child,As a mom, it’s easy to get frustrated with ourselves when we feel like we can’t figure out what our child needs from us.
The teenager years make you learn how to parent in a completely different way. And you really do learn to support each child in a way they need to be supported. Growing up is hard and they all struggle at some point but I know this to be true: I will be here for them and everything will work out and be okay.is a writer who finds solitude in a good book, the ocean, and eating fast food with her kids.
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