Time Magazine takes a look at parenting and what our kids choose not to share with us.
Most parents, if we’re honest, can spot our own fingerprints at our children’s crime scenes. When Ethan lies about handing in his homework, when Emma sneaks her phone for late-night texting, they’re often rebelling against pressures that come at least partly from us. This is not to defend their actions, only to remind us that if we act as if we don’t trust our kids, it may invite them to be less trustworthy. Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it’s practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
Source: Time
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