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Originally Posted by lisacb  ...I don't want to shelter them from everything and then send them off to college with limited knowledge and then they're suddenly on their own. They need to start being exposed to things now while you still have the ability to explain it and help them make sense of it all... |
Exactly!
Parenting has so many difficult decisions as we go through each step along the way. We all learn as we go -- we are at this juncture in our boys' lives when we have to protect them differently then we have during their younger years. We do this by hopefully teaching them to make healthy decisions.
It is nice to be able to discuss these things with people who are in similar stages or who have recently gone through them.