As parents we all live busier-than-we-would-like-to-be lives, but we cannot
and must not cease being part of our kids’ worlds just because they reach that
scary teenage time. They may not show it very often, or ever, but they need us.
Deep down, they really want us to be interested in their school lives. They
want us to be at all the activities. They expect us to care about their
schoolwork. They just cannot admit it out loud because that’s not so cool.
Someday, though they will pass through the teen gauntlet and then they will
realize how lucky they were to have their mom or dad or both involved in their
lives all the way through.