PreTeena by Allison Barrows for July 14, 2013

Mothers are guaranteed to go a little nuts when it comes to how their girls look. It’s hard for them to think of their girls as separate from themselves. Took 30 years to get my mother to stop trying to buy me jewelry and shoes – in her taste, of course, not mine. Even now she still wants to grumble about my clothes when I go to visit her.