Recently I saw ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ again for the first time in a long while. Amongst everything else amazing in the movie/book was Scout and Jem’s reaction to his hither to unknown ability to shoot a rifle. They only knew their father as a somewhat old conservative quiet and honest man and were impressed with this otherness about him.

I am a new recruit to Fluther and my 15 year old thinks it’s highly amusing that I, her mother, is involved in such a forum. She thinks I’m a complete and pretentious dork with my answers. Haha.

On the other hand when she discovers I know how to do something or I know something she would not have presumed I would she can be impressed or a little disturbed. Perhaps it doesn’t fit with her image of me in her life. Parents don’t tend to exist outside of their children’s lives before they were born. We just wait quietly and patiently for their arrival!
Are there people in your life who’s thoughts, impressions and opinions of you have changed after finding out about your “life outside of them”? I’d love to hear your stories?