Hooked on Ferrets Worked for Me

Posted on the 6S Social Network 3Feb10

There are two professions that I know of in which the real world experience of the teacher means nothing to the student: teaching the ropes course of life to a teenager, and a kamikaze pilot. When my wife or I try to tell our one-month-until-I'm-thirteen year old daughter a valuable life lesson we've learned, it's like trying to teach string theory to a ferret; they look you in the eye at first, then they go and gnaw the strap button off of your 1974 Fender Stratocaster. We try to stress to her that the world is a wonderful place to live (because she has no choice) but the world can be treacherous if the wrong moves are made. There has to be some point in which a teenager turns into a human being. I thought about drawing upon my own teenage experience to set her straight, and then I remembered that I can't remember much of my teenage years. I was way too busy having way too much fun.