We pretend that we know our children, because it’s easier than admitting the truth–from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It’s far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it’s safer to say you’re a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

We pretend that we know our children, because it’s easier than admitting the truth–from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It’s far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it’s safer to say you’re a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

– Jodi Picoult –

Change of Heart

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