There was a Sunday a few months ago when my 15-year-old went quiet in the car after church. Not the normal teenage-boy quiet. This was a different kind of quiet — the kind that fills up the whole backseat and makes you hold your breath a little. Later that evening, he finally said it out
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My 15-year-old walked into the kitchen last fall looking genuinely frustrated. He’d been put in charge of a group project at our homeschool co-op, and instead of the team pulling together, it had fallen apart. Kids weren’t doing their parts. He’d gotten annoyed. Things got tense. He came home deflated and said, “I don’t think
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It happened on a Tuesday afternoon, which is honestly when most of the real stuff happens around here. My 15-year-old came downstairs after finishing his schoolwork, poured himself a glass of water, and just… stood there. I didn’t say anything. I kept chopping vegetables. And after about two minutes of comfortable silence, he started talking.
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