Growing up

She’s not going to sit down for a puberty lecture. Not tonight. Not when her favourite show is on, her friends are texting, or she’d simply rather be doing anything else. And that’s completely fine — because the best learning doesn’t always look like learning. It looks like a conversation that happens while you’re cooking […]

She used to tell you everything. Every detail about her day. Every drama with her friends. Every thought that crossed her mind on the way home from school. And now? You ask how her day was and you get “fine.” You ask what’s wrong and you get “nothing.” You try to connect and she disappears