Andrea Owen
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442 appearances
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first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
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And she has a lot of friends and she gets invited to all the birthday parties and she has sleepovers.
And Colton's just not interested in that.
And he's had a couple of play dates, which I've been the planner of.
And they've they've been fine, but I think that's too why I get triggered because I, you know, when watching those teenage boys, the other
day, I can totally imagine my daughter being a normal teenage girl and doing all the things that teenage girls do.
Like there's no doubt in my mind that she's gonna be just fine.
But but thinking about my son doing that, I get hugely triggered.
And like you were saying, it brings back
All of my you know, for me it was middle school was awful.
And I'm like, Oh my God, how is seventh grade gonna he's gonna be in braces?
He's got this cowlick, you know.
Is it gonna be bad?
And I don't know if this is everyone's experience, but I have found that I care about his social status and so like all of that way more than he does.
Like like we were talking about his birthday, because it's tricky because he's an August birthday and so he's not in school when it's his birthday and
I said, do you want us to maybe like give invitations out at the very end of the school year to for your friends so we can like plan your birthday way ahead of time?
And he thought about it and he was like, not really.
But what if we just do like something fun with us, just our family?
And and and you know, that's me getting triggered and like thinking that he has to have these friends and they I'm I'm the hovering mom in that way with his social stuff because that
Still is a little bit hard for him.
But again, what it comes down to is that he doesn't come home and cry about it or say like,
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