Parenting growing pains

Anybody who tells you parenting is easy is lying. Parent IS a verb. No matter what age and stage your child is at, if you are actively parenting you are physically or emotionally tired….sometimes both. One thing I will say is that parenting teenagers today is very different from when I was parenting my teenagers 10 years ago. How is that even possible? It has only been one measly decade!!! It is a different world we live in from ten years ago. The fifteen year old boy I had 10 years ago was in a very different place emotionally and…