I recently typed "parenting teens is…" in the search bar on Safari. The results auto-populated as follows: "hard," "exhausting," "so hard." Parenting teens isn't for the faint of heart. Whether it's the natural desire for teens to differentiate themselves from you, the changing cultural trends that you struggle to understand, let alone keep up with, or the overall pace of life teens keep today, it is not easy to be a parent of teens. But the objectively difficult work of parenting teens is made even harder because of the false stories we tell ourselves. There are lies we tend to believe that leave us thinking the best we can do is survive the teenage years and hope our kids do too. But what if those stories are wrong? Here are 7 things we get wrong about parenting teens. 1. There's one right way to do it. Look, I think you should read books and articles about parenting teens (thank you for reading this one), but what you shouldn't do is assume t...