Becoming a parent is curious because the time that you have with your children is finite in so far as they will grow up one day and you will have relationships with adults. The stranger thing yet is that a lot of people view their children against a metric of milestones that society has normalized and legitimized by using them in the past. For example, the first time your baby speaks, it is a big moment. The same is true when they first start to walk. The first day of school is often an emotional moment, for both the parents who realize that their child is growing up quickly, as well as for the child themselves who will quickly need to acclimate to a completely different environment. However, there are so many milestones that it can be difficult to keep track of them sometimes. A person’s first boyfriend or girlfriend is imbued with a lot of meaning, as is the first album that they buy. These are particularly important because they further demonstrate that the child is maturing into an adult.
