Eyes on the Prize
An extract from Raising Teens Today by Ian Lambie & Les Simmonds
‘Take the time to enjoy your child’s teenage years. Enjoy the naivety and the idealism. Enjoy the courage and even the frustration of being young in an old world. Relish the opportunities to debate whether meat is murder, whether adults are all hypocrites, whether adults can or can’t dance with the stars, and whether education sucks. Take lots of photographs and videos, even of the things that drive you crazy, such as messy rooms and weird fashions. When you’re old and grey and full of sleep, and your own kids are middle-aged, maybe with kids of their own, these things will be treasures beyond worth You’ll look at these pictures of the room with the floor that didn’t see the light of day for years, and crazy as it might sound you may just feel rapt to have been there and survived it all. You may even find yourself wishing you could go back there again, just for a visit, just for one day, just to see them as they were, one last time.
Above all other things, keep your eyes on the prize’
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