I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.
After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'
The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.
Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.
I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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