There’s something strange about becoming the age you remember your parents being.

When you’re a child, your parents can seem like finished adults. They make the decisions, give the advice, and appear to understand a world you’re still learning how to navigate.

Then you grow up.

You start making difficult decisions without knowing how they’ll turn out. You become responsible for your own life. And eventually, you look back at an old memory, do the math, and realize:

Wait. My parents were this young?

In this episode of Metanoia Madness, Nicholas explores what happens when we become old enough to see our parents not only as Mom or Dad, but as people who were still becoming themselves while raising us.

Adulthood can give us context we weren’t capable of seeing as children. We begin to understand that the lessons ou ...