The life lessons my teen boys have taught me

Libby-Jane Charleston
4 min readNov 1, 2020

Who’d have thought you could learn anything from “difficult teens!”

Two of Libby-Jane’s sons, Sydney

Parenting three teenage boys involves much frivolity and bucket loads of patience. When they were younger, people would often tell me, “You have your hands full!” and I’d reply, “I’m so lucky!” Sure, there are tricky times and arguments, both meaningful and meaningless.

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Libby-Jane Charleston

Journalist, ex-ABC TV, HuffPost AU Assoc Editor, ABC TV, author, poet, mother of 3 boys, cancer Survivor, history lover