My Teens Don’t Have Summer Jobs And I’m Okay With That

It finally dawned on me a few years ago that this whole parenting thing is just a lengthy sequence of lessons in serenity.

Perhaps because both my children were blessed with strong wills, I have absorbed and accepted this realization to the absolute core of my being. I’ve reached the point where I quickly know when to give up the fight – and when to not even contemplate starting one.

Months ago, both of my kids decided that they were going take a college course during their summer break. For...