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Reply to "Perspecitive from the mother of a very popular teenage boy or girl."
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[quote=Anonymous]Like all of us, I worry about my son every single day. Some of the things I worry about, I should worry about - he is a bit high strung, unorganized, and comes off as argumentative sometimes. These characteristics will make his life a bit harder, so I worry. Some of the things I worry about really come down to - "if I were his age, I would be happier if X were true, but he doesn't do that" - he's more of a loner than I, he doesn't have the very tight circle of friends that were key to my high school happiness (I was far from the "popular crowd" but I did have a large circle). When these worries crop up, I just repeat that mantra: I am not my child. My child is not me. I must raise the child I have, not the child I expected to have or wanted to have. My kid couldn't give a rat's ass about popularity. I admire that, most of the time, but sometimes I forget to.[/quote]
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