Had a great experience with my mom this last week because she let me know how she was proud of me. You see my mom and me have gone through a lot this two past years being that my son affected both our lives dramatically all good and bad but I guess at the time the bad seemed to outweigh the good. WE both delt with more stress, no sleep, no energy, and many more obstacles since we were so packed with our individual responsibilities along with my sons! Which is why my mothers and I relationship has not been all that great, I think we were so feed up that we just took it out on each other! Having a child now was not at all the best idea being that I am young in school his father’s away and my mom is a full time working woman still raising my brother, sister, and me! Despite that being a FACT she let me know that she has since a great change in the person I am even with all the criticism I have taken I still managed not to be just a typical “TEEN PARENT”. Even with that I still feel like if I would have waited a lot longer to have a child my mother would be more relaxed and level headed with me, even myself I mean I love my child with all my heart but much of what I wish to have done cannot be done anymore. Like moving away to college to experience a new place or getting my dream apartment with my sister just some things like that I mean being a parent took my youth away, something no adolescent should take for granted because they might not see it but all in one moment of lust and excitement it can all be taken away!!! Although knowing that my mom is proud of the mother I have become I hope adolescents realize patience is key to living out once youth.