When J-bird was born I was only 17. I feel that my young age helped in many ways in raising him. I had baby-sat so many kids and even helped raise my niece that I knew kids were pretty resilient.
I didn’t baby him much, in fact he was growing up to soon because I was a single mom. By the time he was seven he knew how to do laundry. I was determined to make sure he would never be dependent on anyone.
Em came along 15 years later. It was like having a baby for the first time.
