Three things

Here are 3

Pick one. Each takes about as long as it says.

• Read the book your teenager is reading

  It gives you a subject that is not school, not their friends and not anything they have to defend.

  OngoingUnder $10A friend

• Stay in touch with the person who left

  People who leave a workplace, a church or a town are dropped quickly, and it is rarely a decision anyone made.

  OngoingFreeA friend

• Be the house where the friends come

  Teenagers need somewhere that is not a bedroom and not a street. Somebody's kitchen is the whole infrastructure.

  OngoingUnder $10A friend