I remember being a teenager.
Teenagers today have a lot more stress on them, and a lot more worries.
I’m not too old to understand where they’re coming from most the time. But, there is one thing I know that they have not learned, and that is that once in a while you need to learn to take advice. When my son asked his father and I about careers for after high school, we sat down to talk to him. We already knew that he was not a suitable candidate for college, and he had already stated he didn’t want to go. We sat down at the table and started having a serious discussion. My husband told him he could go to a trade school, he could go to the military and get an education, or he could work with him. My husband owned the local HVAC company, and he had often stated how much he would enjoy having his son join the company and eventually take over the HVAC business. We didn’t want to throw too much at him, because we were afraid he would think we were getting pushy. Before Bobby walked out of the kitchen, he asked his father if he wanted him to work at the HVAC company with him? My husband smiled and said he would like nothing better than to have his son as a partner. That’s when Bobby turned the tables on his dad. He told him that if he wanted his son as a partner in the HVAC company, maybe he should learn to take his own advice and ask. He was waiting for his dad to ask him to work in the HVAC company.