Teenagers are the hardest part of parenting. But that's only half the story | Anna Spargo-Ryan

When my two daughters were small, I thought that was as bad as it could get

There’s a scene in the latest season of Sex Education where Jean (Gillian Anderson) sits across from her son Otis (Asa Butterfield). They’re fighting because he’s awful. He whines at her, the way kids like him do, about why she won’t just forgive him. It’s so unfair! Anderson takes a long, tearful look at her terrible son and says: “Because as the primary carer in your life, I always get your worst. And I’m tired of it.”

For a show about kids figuring out love and sex, it was a beautiful piece about the hardest part of parenting: teenagers.

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