Quote Originally Posted by openyoureyes View Post
Most teenagers ignore what their parents are saying anyway.
Oh, no. No, they are listening every single moment. They just want you to think they are ignoring you.

I don't have any kids; I just remember being a teenager quite well. Your kids always know a lot more than you think they do, and you probably know less about them than you think, too. Just a caution.

I've often thought about if we had children how we would handle our relationship around them. I think I would just be straight with them up front, because that was how I was raised and I was always grateful to my mother for just telling me the plain truth about things. But I don't really know; I'm just speculating.