When your tween is bigger than you are
Liz Atwood is here with Tween Tuesday:
In the grand scheme of being a parent, this is a small matter. It's not as serious as dealing with illness, a call from the principal, or a bad grade on the report card. It's not like dealing with rudeness, a broken curfew or a broken heart. But this summer my 12-year-old son has passed a milestone. He now is taller than I am.
Of course, we've seen this coming for a while. In the last couple years, he's enjoyed measuring himself against me and gauging how much longer it would be before he would be taller than I was. And now that day has arrived. He enjoys calling me shorty. I remind him I'll always be his mother.
I want my boys to grow up to be tall, handsome men. But it is a little unsettling when your baby is bigger than you are. Has this happened to you? Does looking up to your son or daughter change the relationship you have with them?
Comments
my 8 year old is gaining on me and I think he will probably be as tall as I am by the time he is 10! We are already wearing the same shoe size. He's just a very tall, big kid. I'm still the big one in his eyes, though, but dread the day he will not respond to "the look" anymore! My husband and have done our very best to help him be a person who is kind and empathetic and looks out for the "little ones". I don't think I was thinking back then that soon enough I would be a "little one"!
Posted by: kathryn parke | July 3, 2009 7:41 AM
My 12 year old son just had a physical and as I suspected, he is just as tall as me now! It is a strange feeling.
Posted by: Christine Connally | July 8, 2009 9:22 AM