Friday, May 7, 2010

My young man turns 11

May 6. My small man, ACE, enters adolescence. That's a step nearer to teenage.

Talking to teenagers (or trying to), I heard, is an extreme case of differing worldviews 2 people in the family can have. Teens are beginning to go out into the world - and it's a different world from the one we, their parents know. Because of conflicting assumptions about the world and how it works, conversations, I was told, between teens and they adults they live with can spiral out of control.

I will do my best to ensure that doesn't happen between ACE and I.

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