I was a teen once. It may be a bigger deal for a girl to become a teen than a boy. Still, there is a great deal about parents and who they were and who they are that a newly-minted teen simply can't know. There is too much, not even counting the bits that have been left out. See the comic "Dustin" for today:
https://comicskingdom.com/dustin
Parenthetically, I never understood that nagging that often comes when the 2nd or 3rd graders see that he likes her. Why nagging? What, are you afraid to be liked? Jealous? Expecting rejection? Affection and the source of newly generated babies is a big deal, for every one of us, the source of each of us!
We celebrated a young teen becoming the age to qualify for the teen label last night. Part of the celebration was the family playing the trivia card game "Millennials vs. Boomers". There were plenty of moments when the children had a chance to be astonished at what the parents remembered from their early years and what siblings and parents revealed about affection and fandom and who liked what singers and actors.
Were you once entranced by the pelvis or voice of Mr. Presley? Did you thrill to the voice of Patti Page or Peggy Lee? Did you like Randolph Scott or Tim Holt? I always thought Ann Blythe was lovely. How about you? [She is reported to be 93 years old now.]
