Confessions of a Single Mom Over 40

To Be Continued By: Marci They say that we all have a second childhood when we get old.  We again need help tying our shoes….  Need help getting dressed and need help brushing our teeth…eating… What they don’t tell you about is your second teenage years.  Let me get back to this… You know teenagers get a bad rep.  I know it sounds strange coming from me because if you know me, you know how much I dislike teenagers.  After helping to raise a few, I can honestly say, teenagers have it hard.   They are told over and over again to be responsible and to go to school, get good grades, do their chores, stay out of trouble.  Then we tell them No you can’t do this or that, you are just a kid.  We expect our teenagers to be responsible adults, but then we don’t let them.  I know this varies from person to person, family to family. Something else that teenagers go through that we tend to forget about is how hard it is for them to know who they are....