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2022NYC posted:

Welcome to being a teenage parent. Let me leave you with a quote from one our greatest authors...

 

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

 

Mark Twain

My dad used to quote that to me all the time.  I *hated* hearing it.  Now, of course, it is one of my favorites.  

I also love this one, from James Baldwin:  "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

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