Saturday, December 9, 2017
being a teenager
being a teenager
I thought it was hard in 1990. We didnt have social media. We didnt have a computer in our house, let alone in our bedroom. We did have the opportunity to make bad choices. And we made them. But the consequences didnt seem as dire.... The potential for disaster, not as extreme.
Of course, now I am the parent... not the teenager. I am on the worrying side, Not the Dont worry! side...
Trust is given, and taken, and abused and re-earned. Temptations and choices and distractions descend. I remember my heart breaking open in my chest the day my mother said, "I am just so disappointed".... And I remember my heart re-breaking in that same chest 20 years later when I said the same words...
Nothing is unfixable. Nothing is too late, too hard, too much. That heart is not broken, and it will always be open and full of love. Being a teenager is not always awesome... It sucked in 1990 and it sucks in 2012. It is hard and confusing and filled with extremes. Our job is to just hang in there. Just hold on and help them get through. NO matter what stupid shit they get up to. And you know what? MY teenager will always be Awesome.
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