The one piece of advice that I actually took that I got from a stranger was when I told him that I had just had my second kid. He said that you need to start early with them by inoculating them to teenage stupidity as much as you can. His idea was is that you start to tell them when they’re like eight or nine when they still love and respect you that in a few years year, you as the parent are going to start to seem to be crazy and stupid. And that your kid will not think you are right about anything. He had done this with his daughters and so when they got to the shithead teenager years and he would try to tell them stuff and they would try to ignore them, in the back of their heads they thought wait a minute dad said this would happen. he said it didn’t solve the problem, but it sure took the rough edges off of some of their stupidity.