Deep Calls to Deep: The Gray Zone

I believe it was my dad who told me when I was a teenager that “this is our first time at parenting.” 

What he meant by the statement was that he and my mom were learning in real time how to parent their firstborn. Being a narrow-minded young man, the idea that my parents were making it up on the fly was mind-blowing. That one cataclysmic line jolted me and forced me to consider life from their perspective.

Twenty-five years later, I was the parent of two teenagers myself.

I remember sh...