on feeling inadequate as a parent

As I watch my sweet oldest boy turn more and more into what some might call an angsty teenager - I recall mySelf at his age.

Not so long ago, I was his age....and not long after that, I was pregnant and giving birth to him.

I was 18 the year he was born. The only child of only children, I'd never been around kids, never babysat.

I only ever held a baby onc…