Hey Nancy!

Sep 28 23:38 06, Nancy Backus wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 NB> hmmm....  You guys make me glad I didn't have a daughter, just a 
 NB> son...!
 NB> His teen years were bad enough!  

Tell us about your teen years and then maybe there is something there that
will help you relate to the fathers of teenage daughters.

 NB> To be fair, though... it may be a little different since I am neither
 NB> her mother nor her father...  

True.  I have less problems with other's children although I suspect that
the teens view me differently then they do their parents no matter if I
take their parents point of view.  The few times it happens these days I
think the kids might even appreciate the opportunity to air their
grievances to me without taking the risk of it inadvertantly causing a
further rift in the generation gap.

 NB> And since she started college in 
 NB> the
 NB> dorms, I've been inclined to treat her more as an emancipated adult 
 NB> and
 NB> less as a child that needs strict rules.

That is great when that happens.

Life is good,
Maurice

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