Having a teenage kid at home is one of the biggest challenge of parenthood.
You are never good enough to their standards, never doing your best, you can never understand how they feel, you are always born in an old ear. As if you were never a teenage too one day.
Raising them? I don't know whether we are raising them or them raising us?
I thought that having a child while I'm still young will get me through this phase easily as a young mom. But this Era teenagers are sooooo different from us. First of all I found out that new teenaging is starting from the age of 8; first there's "tween", then at 10 there's "pre-teen", and the last level where you meet the GUL " teenage".
By the time I reached that level I was already in a mess. Trying to be her friend at times, trying to set rules at others, keeping it balanced is not an easy job, you're juggling with too many balls, if you dropped one you'll loose them all.
No-one is sure of how well they are raising their children, but some are not doing it at all, and my worst defeat is competing with pears pressure and environmental impact.
I admit that in many situations I felt frustrated, I felt that I'm loosing all kind of control; on her as well as on myself, but I only believe that what kept me from falling is God's bless, yes, I'm trying to do my best, even if it were not enough, but this is the best I can do, and that's what really matter, at the end of the day feeling that comfortable with myself.
You are never good enough to their standards, never doing your best, you can never understand how they feel, you are always born in an old ear. As if you were never a teenage too one day.
Raising them? I don't know whether we are raising them or them raising us?
I thought that having a child while I'm still young will get me through this phase easily as a young mom. But this Era teenagers are sooooo different from us. First of all I found out that new teenaging is starting from the age of 8; first there's "tween", then at 10 there's "pre-teen", and the last level where you meet the GUL " teenage".
By the time I reached that level I was already in a mess. Trying to be her friend at times, trying to set rules at others, keeping it balanced is not an easy job, you're juggling with too many balls, if you dropped one you'll loose them all.
No-one is sure of how well they are raising their children, but some are not doing it at all, and my worst defeat is competing with pears pressure and environmental impact.
I admit that in many situations I felt frustrated, I felt that I'm loosing all kind of control; on her as well as on myself, but I only believe that what kept me from falling is God's bless, yes, I'm trying to do my best, even if it were not enough, but this is the best I can do, and that's what really matter, at the end of the day feeling that comfortable with myself.
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