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		nottorp on March 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Young men and women are drifting apart Were you in a parent or teacher position? Nothing those people say is good to a teenager. I know, I've been both teenager and parent. Or to put it another way, they'd rather not interact with someone who has a "right" to have an opinion on what they do and maybe even enforce it.

swader999 on March 14, 2024 [–]

Parent but it's more complicated than that. They are friends of my daughter who passed 19 months ago. So there wasn't really that dynamic you describe. I genuinely feel they were able to freely consider and laugh off my idea.

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