Soiling the Nest: What’s Good About Teens Being Bad

My oldest leaves for college in about six weeks. To say the last few months haven’t been without a multitude of aggravations, unwarranted aggressions, flaring tempers, and angry outbursts would be a big, fat lie. Because they have. A lot.

I’ve been told this is a phenomena known as soiling the nest. It’s when we as mothers, perhaps out of utter exhaustion and perpetual impatience, have gotten to the point of, well, to put it bluntly, WANTING OUR KIDS OUT OF THE NEST. Period. Ironically, it c...