ABSTRACT
There is an almost mythic quote in the parenting world, often attributed to Mark Twain, although it’s not his and no one knows who really said it. Nonetheless, it’s a terrific characterization of the evolving parent-child relationship through the teen years: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
