My Daughter
I wrote, awhile back, about how Erin and I weren't getting along. Now all my friends (who I am forever grateful to) told me this would all blow over. That she was being a typical teenager. But I seriously had my doubts. She just wasn't turning out the way I'd raised her and it had me worried.
So now it looks as if all my friends were right!
Erin has become quite a wonderful young woman. Turning 18 this past October seemed to bring with it a total change in her attitude towards me and just in general. She seems to now realize the importance of being an adult. And this is a very good thing!
She moved out into her own apartment in November and while I miss having her around, I've made the adjustment to being "single" again quite well, if I do say so myself! We don't see eachother nearly as much as I'd like but we keep in touch. She's only a few minutes away in Los Angeles and so we can see eachother easily.
Erin is an actress, with a successful show on Nickelodeon (The Journey of Allen Strange, where she plays Robbie) and this keeps her quite busy and I realize that. Between working up to 12-16 hours a day, five days a week, keeping up her new apartment, and her social life I am very lucky she calls me as often as she does!
I am very pround of my daughter. She grew up, virtually, without a father. He left when she was only two and has never, on his own, contacted her. This, I know, has been hard on her, but I've tried to compensate for it. And while her grandfather was alive he did wonders to supply her with a positive male infulence. Yes, she's quite the young lady now.
I'm actually looking forward to the years ahead of us!
By: Jane Byron Dean
12/98
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