Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom - the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure - cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime - much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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