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

• 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

• Look after the thing they love while they cannot

  The plants, the dog, the allotment, the band. Keeping someone's project alive through an illness keeps a version of them alive too.

  OngoingFreeA friend