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Mom Milestones
TUESDAY, JUNE 23 2009
Congratulations to all you parents of graduating seniors. “Seems like only yesterday…” How many times have you heard that over the past couple of weeks? I remember the first time I went to the local high school as a parent. I was immediately taken back to all the awkwardness that is high school. I was lost, trying to fit in with the cool moms and still wondering why we had to dissect that frog anyway. Milestones like graduations remind us our children are growing up. While children morph into young adults in the blink of an eye, have you ever watched the parents age? I believe when you are the parent of a teenager, you age in either presidential years or dog years. Look at a picture of an incoming president. His face is fresh, his manner confident. Then look at that same man as he boards Air Force One for the last time. An eight year term yields twenty years in aging. It’s the same for a mom of a teenager, especially one hell bent on learning everything the hard way. The mom will begin to look her age for maybe the first time as she wipes away the mascara during the 8th grade promotion. The mother will send her child off to 9th grade still vibrant and optimistic. Four years later, all the Botox, Spanx and Miss Clairol in the world can’t hide the battle scars: bags under the eyes from curfews missed, nails bitten to the quick after the driver’s permit was issued, five pounds of belly fat thanks to Ben and Jerry’s and the roller coaster of teen hormones. Then seemingly before you know it, this poor Mom who used to get carded picking up her favorite bottle of wine at the grocery store now looks firmly planted in middle age. That’s how it happens. Teenagers. The universal cause of aging. As parents, we may be once removed from many of life’s milestone, but they mark the passing of time for us as well. Parents, let’s take this graduation week and enjoy ourselves. Sure, the only thing we will get out of beach week is the bill, but we can celebrate. In a few years many of these things that have stressed us more than we thought we could endure will be funny stories told around the Thanksgiving table. Plus it’s only a matter of time before we heard those words we have been longing to hear. “Mom, Dad, you were right”.
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