Comments on: It takes a village to raise a teenager http://karenrayne.com/2007/05/24/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-teenager/ Thu, 17 May 2012 22:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Alice http://karenrayne.com/2007/05/24/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-teenager/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Alice Fri, 25 May 2007 03:14:00 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/?p=54#comment-85 A Presbyterian friend of mine who wrote her dissertation on youth church involvement found that even one adult smiling and saying "hello" on a regular basis can make the difference between a teen being involved in church and not attending.<br/><br/>Unrelatedly, is it a very common phenomenon for twentysomething mothers to be mistaken for teenagers? I thought it was hysterical when it happened to me, but of course it also exposes something ugly in society. A Presbyterian friend of mine who wrote her dissertation on youth church involvement found that even one adult smiling and saying “hello” on a regular basis can make the difference between a teen being involved in church and not attending.

Unrelatedly, is it a very common phenomenon for twentysomething mothers to be mistaken for teenagers? I thought it was hysterical when it happened to me, but of course it also exposes something ugly in society.

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