I think I approached my new role as mom differently than most. For me, mothering was in stages. Each new stage had its overwhelming sense of 'am I doing this right?'
As I learned, I could relax about that issue and so continue in to the next stage. Teenagers are the toughest I think, because you have a person trying to assert who they are; except they don't know who they are yet. Part of it for me was giving them enough freedom to be themselves, while balancing them when the boundary was surpassed. Every teenager tests the limits so boundaries must be enforced and put into place.
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