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The Prodigal Son and your teenage son
Being a parent is not easy to do the job right. A misconception if we are not called to be their friend but their parent. It is easy to be a friend but a parent has to train and lay down the law when needed. No special insight from this Daddy but it seems you are on the correct path. Not only my understanding of the Bible but also from my age and watching many children grow and some even matured. 
My children are older and one of the joys this dad has had has been my oldest mostly coming back to tell me Daddy, I now understand so and so. Very proud of my two girls. Great Christians Moms themselves.
No doubt you have talked with your son in very open heart conversation how you love him and are concerned for him. They do listen even when we wish there were not.
Praying for you and your son. KT
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The Prodigal Son and your teenage son
A thought that I had in raising our children was using a knife. It would be a dumb deal to hand a sharp knife to a two year old. It would also be dumb to be twenty and your parents still cut your meat. Somewhere in there you train, you show, you set example, you explain and sadly you bandage their nicks but trust nicks is it and no limbs removed.
Our oldest (we have two girls) is who has talked with me the most on our raising them as she told me one day her co workers asked her to go to a bar and she told them "MY DADDY WOULD KILL ME". They asked her on that and she said he never told me I could not drink, but I knew it by his stand. Our children learn more by watching than all we can ever tell them. I think the telling helps understand the details or the reasoning and do think it is very important. I also think it is very good to do what Frank said, sit and listen and let them explain themselves. Often when they try to they find they knew the answer just needed a sounding board which we all do from time to time. Oh, they need to be loved and know it. Even Ole Frank wants to hear "I love you". That does not mean I approve or like but I care about YOU, not things. Something for men we seem to want to run from.
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Frank, we have two girls and each like to say they are our favorite one. I did tell our youngest she was beneficiary of her older sister's action in how we viewed certain things. Good or bad might add. kt
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