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One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Mary Pipher
Children, Keys, Talking
Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.259, Penguin

Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

Mary Pipher
Children, Moving, Divorce

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

Mary Pipher
Country, Children, Home
Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.44, Penguin

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