It doesn't matter how old you are, how smart you are, how much (life) experience you have when dealing with a teenager. In an instant they go to the internet and make a fool of you with their responses. Bottom line is: we don't know anything.
Why am I writing this? Abigail developed a bad cold. She was warned by her mom but she didn't listen and now she has a cold. At the onset she was thinking that may it is the Covid virus and not a cold. She does what every doctor hates, diagnoses herself. Yesterday she took the test and fortunately it came back negative. No virus!
Before getting the result, she was scared and compliant to follow her mom's instruction. Now that we all know the result, she is suddenly feeling well, reborn, not following her mom's instructions to get better. Her favorite (hair raising) statement is that "I don't feel that bad". I always ask, compared to what? She is saying this so she can get permission so she can go out, to be with her friends.
These kids think they are indestructible, and we the old people don't know anything. But when that eternal doodoo hits the fan, whom they run to?
Good, old mom!
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