Handing your car keys to your teenager. Giving a cell phone to your teenager. Allowing your teenager to "hang out" with friends, unsupervised. Giving your teenager a computer with Internet access. These are all examples of tepid judgment, but what is a parent to do? Locking your teen in the basement until they turn 21 is an option only for those with secure basements. For the rest of us, we just do the best we can and pray we survive.
A parent's fate is to cling desperately to sanity until their teen grows up, goes out into the world, and starts the cycle all over again. Then they can laugh at their offspring's tepid judgment calls, coddle the insanity of their loins, and only remember the good days, as time wears away the sharp corners and leaves our memories with fuzzy edges.
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It's a very nice piece which all of us who have children grow to adulthood can relate to. It's worth reading four more times.
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