Holding Your Tongue With an Angry Teen Will Make You a Better Parent

Everyone tells you toddlers are a lot of work.

The minute you announce you are pregnant, in fact, people start warning you that the toddler years are fraught with tantrums and noisy outbursts over unpeeled apples and socks that feel funny.

Three year olds have just enough vocabulary to make it very clear that they are unhappy with every single one of your parenting decisions.

You are smarter than a three-year-old and you will win the argument. Most days, anyway.  And if you are looking there...