Dave Asprey has a brutally honest take on parenting teenagers:
Kids are wired to think their parents are stupid from around age 13 to 24. It’s nature’s way of pushing them to leave the tribe and avoid inbreeding.
So your job changes: let them experience pain before 13, then build a support system of good friends and other parents so they still get good advice, even if it’s the same thing you’d say.
What’s your opinion, does this explanation of teenage behavior ring true for you?
Your father is Jamaican.
Your mother is Kenyan.
Yet you, a full-blooded Black man, think you're a descendant of King Charles III.
You're suffering from an identity crisis.
When Botswana was constructing their roads, you would find random piles of cement. Unguarded. I think that was truly my first experience of a high trust society