Parenting on a Spectrum. Intensive Is Not Helicopter.

I Am Hands-on, Even Now That They Are Adulting.

Photo by Terence Burke

From the time I was a little girl, I wanted my very own baby. I wished for it on several birthday candles, blowing them out and silently hoping for a child of my own. I of course had no idea how that would come about, I just knew I wanted to be a mom.