Daughter (15) and I have another conversation about the ‘Puberhol’ phenomenon. Earlier it went over the dirty laundry on the floor, the empty candy packaging in her drawers or the lack of oxygen in that cave. This time it is about the amount of hours she spends on her own. She hardly goes out and there are also rarely classmates. I from some reservations about her social development and use the word ‘house sparrow’ somewhere in the conversation. Daughter: “Better a house sparrow than a street rat, mama.”
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