How Did Becoming a Parent Change Me?
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2 min readMar 21
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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…