parents and the teenage truth
All parents are destined to be ridiculous, embarrassing or annoying, warns Adam Gopnik.
Recently, nothing has been argued about more, or more vociferously, than child-rearing methods. As though such a thing existed. One might as well talk about wolf-watching methods. They do it to you, you don't do it to them.
The real truth
about teenage or
adolescent kids is simple though,
and I will announce it here.
The one thing
that is written
into the human genome
is that exactly at the age of 13,
your child - and
no matter how close
or sympathetic
the two of you have been before,
will discover
that you are now
the most embarrassing,
ridiculous and
annoying person
on the planet.
This is a universal truth.
