Blog It Out, Bitch by Perez Nina

Author:Perez, Nina [Perez, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: JK Press
Published: 2011-10-01T17:00:00+00:00

Empty Nest

June 11, 2008

I don't know how parents who don't live with their kids do it. No judgment here. Well, I'm definitely judging the no-good deadbeats who aren't with their kids by choice. But I'm really talking about those parents who don't live with their kids due to break-ups and divorce. That has to be tough. It just seems so unnatural (and maybe that's a strong word) to go to bed at night, lock-up, and not have your babies in the house with you. Even when they're teenagers. So, yeah, I'll be that Mom who doesn't go to bed until Kali meets curfew.

When you're a city kid you don't mind your curfew as much 'cause there's always something to do, you're close to everything, and there's always a NYC train within a few blocks that can get you where you need to go, or a yellow cab if you're so inclined. But poor Kali. I don't know what she's going to do with us living out here in the 'burbs. I remember going to live with my Dad and Stepmom in Queens as a teenager and hating my 10pm weeknights - 11pm weekend curfew.

I had to walk like three or four blocks from their house to the bus stop. And I'm talking long blocks. Then wait for the bus, ride it to the subway station, catch the train into the city, and most likely transfer to another train that was taking me where I needed to go. By the time I got there, it was time for my black ass to turn right back around just to be home in time. It sucked. Hanging out closer to home wasn't an option ‘cause there wasn't shit to do and all my friends were in Brooklyn or Manhattan.

I'm trying to imagine the kinds of teen trouble Kali will get into living where we do. I'm comparing it to the way I grew up and what I was exposed to. I'm not feeling like one is better than the other. When I grew up, I was dancing and partying in NYC nightclubs at seventeen. I was eating and hanging out in restaurants and bars with "grown folk" and celebrities. I was attending record release parties and movie premieres. I had an Oscar nominated heartthrob asking me back to his place cause I had the most beautiful lips he'd ever seen... this after he followed me to the ladies room. I would sleep on the train with my head on my friend's shoulder at 5am as we headed back to our apartment in Brooklyn, as most other riders were on their way to work. We had on last night's clothes smelling like last night's tequila. Once, I was courted by a female porn star.

I live in a different world now. I imagine Kali's teen years resembling a Lifetime movie. I have images of house parties in the suburbs where I gotta worry about little Matt slipping something into her red plastic party cup and not taking no for an answer.

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