Confessions of a Failed Father
December 10, 2009
My twelve-year-old daughter told me yesterday that she has cut off all communication with a friend because he used the word “deteriorate” in a sentence. “You speak like a seventy-year-old,” she told him in scorn. When I told her that she should admire people with large vocabularies, not make fun of them, she blew me off, too. “I’m not grammarful,” she said.
Where did I go wrong?
–Dennis
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Impending adolescence is not your fault. View this phase as if you were raising a really big two-year old, and the next few years will be less painful.
~Michelle