Baby birds have no idea what's outside that nest.
Young children will occasionally find some corner of the house, some closet or a wall surface that was always covered by furniture before and they are not surprised that there are parts of that house they had never seen before. The house is everything.
Teenagers know they are meant to get up and go out. They're not happy about it, sometimes, especially when their house is a haven of love and sweetness and creativity, but their instincts kick in anyway and their perspective changes, very literally, and that nest seems like just a little wad of sticks on one little branch of one of ten thousand trees....
Crowded by their new awarenesses and raging hormones and their relative size (their rooms and beds are getting smaller by the day) and their collections of stuffed animals and action figures and Lego.
Sandra
(January 2000, with one teen and two pre-teens then)
photo of Holly Dodd on her way to a party
This photo was in the Just Add Light folder for many, many years, waiting for a quote or topic it might slightly match.
Good enough.
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