Taken at Pease Park in Austin. My son is 19 in this picture and still indulges me for family pics.
Courtesy of Julie Royce
- I am a single mom and allowed my son a lot of independence growing up.
- I was leaving him home alone when he was 7. By his tweens, he was navigating the city on his own.
- My parenting may be unconventional but it worked because of how I raised him at a young age.
I wanted my kid to have many of the same freedoms I had growing up in the '80s in the country ...