My kids turned 13 and 15 in the last month. Teenagers! Rose's 13th Birthday, girls' dinner at Olive Garden Teenagers are awesome. I love them. Raising them is hard not because they're a problem (most of the time). My kids are not bad, just as most are not. Sure, when kids become teens most of them need to somewhat painfully separate themselves from their parents. They're designed to do that, no matter that some modern thinkers say that's a crock and that the whole idea of "adolescence" is just an invention of the 1950s. There's some truth to that, but the fact is that just as a 2-year old is going to learn his or her independence, so is a teen-ager. Even in the "olden days", children did not live long under their parents' roof once they became teens. And if they did, they still married and had their own family and contributed to the family and society as adults. Way back to Biblical times we have the whole notion of sepa...
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