If you’re in the long process of launching a teen into adult life, you know the wobbly, unstable feeling.
Your teen’s about to embark on a journey that’s going to be exciting.
It’ll be a combination of breathtaking beauty and—at certain times—hair-raising, adrenaline-skyrocketing danger.
The safely of the shoreline is no place to spend the rest of your life, and so your teen has to go.
Launching a teen into adult life can feel like launching a canoe.
It’s a time of transition.
You hold the gunwales while the child you love goes from standing confidently on solid ground, to placing one foot on a wobbly, unstable surface.
Then stepping gingerly—holding on—trying to find balance, trying to get to a seat without tipping.
Sometimes this canoe holds multiple teens all doing this at the same time, with scant experience or skill, their every move throwing your whole family off balance one way, and then another.
Launching a teen can be like launching a canoe—for 7 years.
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