It's kind of amazing to remember how cute your child was when they were little, just adorable, right?

And then he or she becomes a teen and that same cute little child is now sassen off at you and

smarten off and oftentimes doing that in public.

Uh-oh, I'm John Fuller here with our vice president of parenting Dr. Danny Huerta and

Rhonda Stobby walked through this very scenario with one of her teenage sons and she shared

about that with Jim Daly and me.

Ronda, describe the common battle moms have with teenage sons.

It's like a tug of war between the boys independence and mom's perception of her little boy.

We're looking at pictures right now, so we're seeing all these.

You ever done that?

You find a file on the computer that has all the kids pictures from like two to five and Jean and

I just been sitting there looking at these pictures you got to check this one

out and it you know so cute you know you remember that little boy and now you know

they're independent more and more and

they're not the same little boys that we were raising back then so it's a

sweet spot and good memories but but that tug of war in that little boy how does a mom you

know allow that independence to occur because you can go to one or two directions

you smother it or you help feed it.

Or the third option is you just give up.

A lot of times moms are just like, they'll figure it out and off they go and it's the best I can do.

I think for me, as Brandon and I were wrestling with him trying to break free from me as his authority figure, men crave respect, we know that.

And I talk in here about how sons crave our respect. So when I'm talking down to him as a little boy that is just raising up in him like why don't you see me as a man. And I remember just trying to get Brandon

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