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None of us expected this pandemic, save maybe a few epidemiologists and public health experts who "expected" it in the same way we all "expect" to die, which is to say that we know it will happen, but we have no idea when or how or what it will feel like. Three months or so into the coronavirus pandemic, each of us has faced challenges and situations we hadn't even imagined previously. And none of us really knows how to handle those situations. We've never been in a pandemic before! Like you, I am making this up as I go along. But recently, I realized that parenting teenage boys has prepared me well for a pandemic.  How? Parenting teenage boys has taught me essential truths about life -- and the limits of my power. Parenting teenage boys has taught me that... Anger often hides … [Read More...] about How Parenting Teenage Boys Prepared Me for a Pandemic