Marcia Segelstein – OneNewsNow Columnist – 1/13/2009 6:50:00 AM

If you’re the parent of a teenager, chances are you spend a fair amount of time alternately pulling your hair out (hopefully, only figuratively speaking) and worrying.  Of course there are also moments of calm, even laughter, and occasional bliss, made all the more sweet in contrast to the worry and the inevitable conflicts.

I read a column recently by a man, a father, who thinks we worry too much about our teenagers.  His take is that things aren’t really all that bad, or all that different than they ever were.  Perhaps it’s true that every generation thinks they face problems with their adolescents previous generations never did.

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