I’ve always prided myself on being the kind of parent who actually trusts her kid. Not the helicopter type, not the spy-on-your-messages type. I grew up under parents who thought privacy was a myth, and I swore my daughter would never have to feel that way. I wanted to raise a young woman who knew she was respected, not surveilled. And for the most part, we pulled it off. She’s fourteen, right at that messy intersection where childhood and adulthood overlap in the most chaotic ways, but she’s always been responsible, grounded, and open with me. She knows my boundaries;...
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