No one tells you that raising teenagers will trigger every hurt, every insecurity, every moment you ever doubted yourself, felt alone, like no one else feels this way, and heartache that you ever felt yourself as a teenager.
GenX is proud to be savage AF. Except in how we raise our kids. Nope, we’re the generation that makes their beds, their lunches, gives them $ for everything, and never lets them feel an ounce of pain without us there. We are genteel AF parents.
I don’t care if you have to light your whole damn house with Christmas lights, watch rom coms on repeat or drink coffee at sunrise, our mission right now is to find light, give light and stay light as much as possible! Light and love people. That’s the mission.
I don’t care if you have to light your whole damn house with Christmas lights, watch rom coms on repeat or drink coffee at sunrise, our mission right now is to find light, give light and stay light as much as possible! Light and love people. That’s the mission.
My ten year old showed me his yearbook yesterday and in the back was a page of the 5th grade favorite quotes. His said, ‘I was born for a reason and that reason is to be myself.’
And in a moment I knew deep down that at least one of my generational curses had been broken.
My 16 yo attended a workshop at his HS yesterday. It was a program started by the father of a Columbine victim. He came to me last night and said, ‘Mom, how do I become a better person?’ I pretty much think that single question can change your life if asked regularly.
Years of working with men has shown me that providing for a family might be the single biggest pressure a father faces and most don’t have the necessary tools or space to deal with that incredible responsibility.
I just saw a mom in Costco, pushing a cart she couldn’t see over, with three kids under eight hanging from the sides and moving in front of the cart, all while bottle feeding a baby and if that doesn’t sum up moms in America…..
@wfaa I live in Frisco and this infuriates me. I have seen people posting in restaurants, movie theaters, etc. I HATE that this is how the city I live in is handling this crisis. City of Frisco may make this choice but me and my friends are hunkered down indoors being responsible