17 Tweets That Perfectly Nail What It's Like To Parent Teens
If there’s one thing nobody prepares you for, it’s parenting teens.
After years of your child needing you and adoring you, all of a sudden the roles reverse and you’re the one that needs and adores them, while they decide you’re now painfully embarrassing.
If you’re in the throes of raising a teen – or more than one (in which case you probably deserve a medal) – here are some heavily relatable tweets about what it’s like to be a parent through this phase.
1. Expect your fair share of monosyllabic responses.
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Please click here to do so.2. They may dress like 40-year-old hillwalkers. But that’s cool now.
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Please click here to do so.17. And while it can be hard (what aspect of parenting isn’t?), it can also be pretty beautiful.
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