Growing Up With Your Kids

At twenty-two I was a single mother with two daughters (Sooter Studios)

I was married at eighteen. The rule in my home growing up seemed to be ‘no dating until you are sixteen’, and then no guidance, whatsoever.

My preparation for marriage was Harlequin Romance novels.

That was back in the day when ‘he’ would kiss ‘her’ at the end of the book, sometimes in the middle if you were really lucky, and he would press his manhood against her and they would live happily…