The last fourteen months with a teenage boy at home has been strange. No 16-year-old boy is supposed to be sitting at home with his parents all day instead of joking with his friends, goofing off in the cafeteria, and shooting some hoops at lunchtime.
For those of us with children, we all have assessed the losses for them over this pandemic year and struggled to help them cope with the absence of social get-togethers, driver’s education, sports, and being at school with their classmates and teachers. My now 17-year-old son has had two birthdays come and go during COVID-19.