If your teenage child gives you news that you never saw coming, there is a right and wrong way to deal with it.  All of us have a sentence we hope we never hear, or at least aren’t expecting.  But, kids are people and the one thing predictable about people is that they are unpredictable.  Here’s a suggestion on how to respond:

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Lauren Goodman, MS, MFT