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   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.2.0   
    * Origin: The Pointy Stick Society XX1V - Not nearly enough (1:261/38.9)