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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
I coached teenage boys for 3 years, and teenage girls for 4 years. The boys I understood. The young women: not even close! 
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I think the first aid to understanding teens is to have been one. You've been a teen age boy. You haven't been a teen age girl. That short-coming can be overcome, but it's definitely not easy. I've been lucky (as a mother of 3 sons) to have been a teen-age girl and raised 2 teen-age sons (and working on a third). It's helped a lot in understanding across the lines.