Learning to Fly

This is an amazing book by Roxanne Henke about what it means to be a mom, when and how you learn what to do as a parent, limits to set or ignore, etc. It follows two women who have little girls at the same time, and goes through the girls' lives through high school graduation. It is told from the mothers' varying points of view and truly made me think about my parenting style and what I should or shouldn't do. My only wish was that she would write a similar story with the children being boys because many of the challenges that the daughters faced were more girl-centered (gossip, peer pressure to look a certain way, curfew, drill team, etc.) than perhaps some of the more boy-centered ones (pornography) that I worry about for my sons. But it was a very good read!