I was the worst nag to my daughter, especially when she was a senior.

She called my cell phone to talk to me about something she was going through, and I go into lecturing.

And she said, hand the phone to dad.

And they talked, and I can tell, they're having a great conversation.

And so then when they hung up, he's like, she just needs you to be with her.

Just listen to her.

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Do you remember we had this couple in our lives when we had our first baby that said,

oh, that's great, but wait until they hit two years old.

It's the terrible twos.

Yes, it would put this pit of fear.

And then...

And then we got to the twos and we're like, hey, it's not so bad.

And oh, wait until they're five and six is going to be the worst.

Then we got to five and six

and we had a couple of three boys and it was okay and then they were like the teenage years gonna do you in

every every single phase everything was going to be so horrible and we get to those stages and we're like

we love them we love the teen years there were difficulties in each of those stages for sure.

But I think my favorite was the teen years.

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