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…
Mom of boys….outnumbered
Being a mom is hard. Being a boy mom is HARD. I will say there were days when my girls gave me a run for my money, but as a fellow female, it wasn’t the same kind of struggle as raising boys is. You relate to your daughters, you remember what it was like to go through the things your daughters go through. Sons though….mothering sons is a whole different world. Boy moms know that our sons are future husbands and fathers and we know what we expect from them as men. We work hard to instill those values and…