CHAPTER 13
Why You Need a Long-Term Perspective
A while back, I was speaking to a local organization of mothers of teenage daughters. At the end of my talk, five sophisticated, welldressed moms came up to me and told me I had been their youth leader when they were in high school. Prior to becoming a therapist, I had spent ten years as a youth minister and had hung out with teens in all kinds of situations, from high school lunches to football games. I hadn’t seen any of these women since the late 1980s, and, wow, they had changed. However, I still remembered all the crazy stuff they had done in their teen years. Once, on a weekend trip with two ...
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