My daughter got her first cell phone for Christmas in 2012. She was 10 years old at the time and the first of her friends to get one. Understandably, some of the moms called me out on it and here’s what I told them. The night before Thanksgiving in 2012…
I wasn’t one of those pregnant women who had that motherly glow. I wasn’t beautiful and perfect and full of life. I was fat and sweaty and full of stretch marks. When it came time for contractions, I thought the women who did this more than once were just nuts….
I knew the day would come when my kid would go off into the world on her own. It’s my job to prepare her for it. The problem is, there’s no one out there to prepare me for it. Given that she’s 15 years old, I thought I had a…