We have unlocked the “argghh, me feckin” couch’ level of parenting. She doesn’t care one bit that she’s leaving me, the one supposedly in charge, twisting in the wind. She gleefully runs down the street with not so much as a note of the Green Cross Code in her head. Those with grown-up children go a little bit misty-eyed when I’m giving out about not getting to pee in peace. “Cherish every moment” is such a vile parenting cliché, and I’m loathe to use it, but I’m trying so hard to stay present.

Source: The Irish Times June 20, 2020 05:00 UTC