- Particularly in this, you know, the teenage years. Right now I think my son, he's 16 and I do find that there's not a lot that he really need me for. 
- Life moves so fast for young people these days. 
- I know I'm not gonna be relevant forever and I know that they're gonna decide one day, which they already have, that I don't know anything. 
- I stay relevant with my kids by actually taking an interest in what they like. 
- Basically talking at their level, and engaging them, sort of, at their level. 
- You have to be relevant in his friends' life as well, because if his friends don't feel like they're relevant to you, they won't come over. 
- Staying relevant I think is also important, knowing their relationships, who their friends are and who it is that they're connecting with and being able to be interested in that part of their lives as well, I think. 
- The key thing for me is, I try not to nag because I find it, that's an easy way to get a conversation with a teenager I guess, is nagging. But there's a negative conversation that you have, it's about, you never clean your room, where's you washing? That kind of stuff. 
- I like to do things with them. I will sit and watch TV with them or watch a movie with them. 
- It's such a fast lane for young people, you know. the technology, their link to technology, their world based in technology is sometimes challenging to keep up with and to stay relevant with. But I do the best I can. 
- And we have dinner together every single day, just to make sure that we're all at the same place. 
- You know I love, you know, him and his friends piling in the car, we put on music, just cruise on home, drop them off. 
- I know it's tedious to be the taxi driver for, to take them to their activities but that's actually not a bad opportunity to have them as a captive audience.