Parenting the Nearly-Grown: Guest Post by Masha Hamilton

Guest Post: Parenting the Nearly-Grown
by Masha Hamilton (Photo by Briana Orr)

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.

Not long after the second of my three children was born, I sat at the kitchen table late one evening talking to my dad about parental responsibility. It's a big topic and we were covering lots of philosophical ground, but what I remember most is my pronouncement that m...