Teens are not children! They’re simply not! Are they adults? Nope! But they’re in an in between development stage and they deserve an age appropriate amount of privacy and autonomy in order to practice our being adults.

“But what if they fuck up?” Yeah I mean that’s how people learn shit.

@luxalptraum if they fuck up then I hope you haven't done something to screw up their natural trust in their parents (like, say, spying on them) so that they come to you to help them instead of someone else.

@tob @luxalptraum like my parents. I stopped telling them anything and stopped journaling/leaving personal documents at home at 14. Then at 18 went NC for 13 years.