You know, they're like explorers in the world. I mean, that's like how I think about teens like that's what their job is their job is to explore they're trying to figure out who they are their job is to go through this kind of identity formation phase and I also think a lot about like difference between an explorer and a nomad.

And I feel like the big difference is an explorer has a home base.

But what I always want parents of teens to know is like your teen still needs you in the most intense way, and they will come back.

They need to know you're there, right?

Like knowing when you're exploring that your home base is there, like I think we all know feels very different than

checking for a home base and feeling like it has dissolved, right? And that to me

says so much about the connection of teens and parents during these really tricky

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