thinking he knew everything and his parents knew nothing. Started being more disrespectful and pushed boundaries. Video games with his online friends drives me nuts. Of course started making stupid decisions like taking a bet for $20 to lick puke off the sidewalk!

You have to give them the leeway to make foolish decisions and learn from them. Otherwise you’ll be a lawnmower parent and your kid will never learn to deal with obstacles or consequences and be unable to function when they leave the nest.

The best part of parenting teenagers is I’ll never let him forget he licked puke off the sidewalk!
So stupid.

But then I think to myself I probably did worse when I was a teenager. We were all there once, we just forget what it was like because we have life experience now. I really feel for them because of all the social media pressure now that we didn’t have.