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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (66555)	12/14/1999 7:57:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Not to be totally absurd, but my experience has been that teenagers mostly want to left alone by their parents, except when they initiate contact. I admit that obsessive care (like Tiger Wood's dad or Mozart's dad) can sometimes produce amazing results -- but it doesn't look like love to me. Those who survived the experience of being a boy on RN ships, like, say Lord Nelson, seemed to have turn out well -- to a point. If we actually believed that close nurturing care of teenagers by both parents was important, we should want to grant public allowances so that parents could stay home in some comfort to nurture their kids. If we want strong, independent, self-reliant kids, we might throw them in the street to take care of themselves, instead of smothering them with care and occasionally beating them up for their own good ("tough love") .