Nothing to hide, let's be open with teenagers

Nothing to hide, let's be open with teenagers (Photo: iStock)

You know those cool aunties, usually frowned upon by many parents because they never take life too seriously, are likely to lead the nieces and nephews into the ways of the world and feign blindness when they catch the nieces and the nephews doing borderline illegal stuff? I am that auntie.

I was born to be that cool aunty. Why else would I be the last born in a big family, not just the last born, but one whose first nephew is five years younger? Why else would Mother Earth make me so unserious, that if I take anything seriously, people around me are allowed to panic?