Yesterday my 17 year old daughter stood in our kitchen screaming at my husband and I that she was an adult, and we needed to treat her as such. Now my first instinct was to tackle her to the ground and try to expel the demon that had taken over my sweet daughter’s body, but in a calm voice I talked to her about what injustice had taken place to make her loose her mind.
I remember being this age. I probably had the same heated conversation with my own parents. In one moment we are asking our daughter to make adult choices – she is looking at colleges and trying to decide where to head in the next season of her life. In the next minute we are reminding her for the 27th time to pick up the towels off the bathroom floor. It’s hard because as her mom I am still driving the helicopter, but I am trying to back off. I swear.
This next year will be hard for all us as we tread through some uncharted territory. I’m praying for God to lead us all through it!