Launching Ourselves
By Elizabeth O’Brien My husband and I are decidedly uncool in the eyes of our teenage son. Even though it’s only been a couple of years since our daughter was a high school senior, and four and half years since our firstborn son was this age, it seems we’ve forgotten, again, how to back off. We’re clingy, intrusive, overly affectionate and corny. We try too hard. I have to hand it to Sam. He’s the only one left, and at 18, he is holding up admirably. He is tolerant of our sen