When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours of learning how to be to do to do without and to depart.
