Sorry Kids, You Ain't Doing Nothing Your Mama Didn't Do Before
They say that children are a reflection of their parents. And if that really is the case, I’m in big trouble. As the mother of an 11-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter, it’s my job to protect them from all the danger this big, scary world has waiting for them. But my kids have no idea that in her day, their mom was on a mission to find trouble wherever she could. It wasn’t my fault. I was the oldest and the only girl in my family, so my parents worked out all of the kinks at my expense. Probably because they had done their own fair share of dirt in their day, I had the earliest curfew and the strictest set of house rules in my crew. And as a result, I was on a constant mission to free myself from their dictatorship.
Lucky for me, I was doing my dirt in a time before cell phones and social media, so there’s not much evidence left behind. Otherwise, I’d never be able to run for public office. But get me and my girls together with a few bottles of wine, and we can tell some stories about parties we shouldn’t have been at, drinks we shouldn’t have been served and company we damn sure shouldn’t have been keeping. And now that my kids are approaching the age when I was at my sneakiest and my parents and I were at constant odds, I’m scared to death.
Read more
More from The Root
Sign up for The Root's Newsletter. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Solve the daily Crossword
