Look at a map, and you can clearly see where you are, where you’ll end up, and the road that takes you there.  But the path through life isn’t so clear.

You and I have lived a lot longer than the teens we’re guiding.  Because of life experience, we can look back and more clearly see the paths that are good, those that are bad… and the healthy destination.  But teens don’t always see what we see!

I hope you remember what your goal is at this point.  As a parent, your goal is to help your kids get to where they want to go… and keep them from where they don’t want to go.

Even if they don’t know which is which.

 

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