Q. I don鈥檛 have a question this time. I just wanted to report back. I wrote to you about my family fighting, and you answered me in your column. I showed the column to my parents, like you suggested. A miracle happened. They got all weird, kind of embarrassed. They asked me if I told you my ...
This column continues a 20-year-old tradition: I ask young people to share what they鈥檙e grateful for each Thanksgiving. It is humbling to know at least two generations of teens were part of these columns! I find this year鈥檚 comments especially thoughtful. To the young people in our ...
Q. I used to love Thanksgiving. I love the food (well, not the cranberry sauce, but everything else), and I love my family getting together. Maybe I should say I LOVED my family getting together. Ever since last year鈥檚 elections, it鈥檚 like they hate each other. My mom won鈥檛 talk with her ...
Q: I鈥檓 not a teen, but I鈥檓 the parent of a 12-year-old. When I was 12, I took a class you taught about growing up. It was on a Saturday morning at the hospital, and I gave my mom a really hard time about going. You met a group of kids and parents in the lobby and chatted with us, and by the ...
Q. Will you weigh in on a debate we had at school? My social studies teacher posed the question 鈥� 鈥�16-year-olds should be allowed to vote.鈥� We were assigned sides, and the conversation was intense. Although some of us were given the negative, and defended it, pretty much all of our ...
Q: Am I too old to trick or treat? My gram says I am, my mom says 鈥淚 don鈥檛 care what you do as long as I don鈥檛 need to drive you somewhere that night鈥� and my dad says, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e old enough to make up your own mind. You decide.鈥� So, I鈥檓 asking you. Is 16 too old? I love costumes. I ...
