How Did Becoming a Parent Change Me?

Adrienne Beaumont
Musings of a Mother
2 min readMar 21

Me with my grandson Photo by Keeley Schroder

I was a teenager when I first married, twenty when I had my first child, and started teaching 6 weeks later. More children followed. I was a full-time teacher, sports coach after school, played sports myself a few times a week, studied university part-time, tutored after school, and ran a business — not all at the same time, but didn’t have much time or energy to put into mothering. My babies fit into my sport and studying…

Adrienne Beaumont
Musings of a Mother

Top writer in Travel and This Happened To Me. I’m Australian. I write about travel and my daily life as a mother and grandmother as well as my past experiences.