Originally Posted by Old Dad
Once my boys hit about 15, we started having more and more discussions about calculated risk, personal responsibility, and ramification of actions as thought patterns when decision making. Those topics have been key in my eldest son's current mindset much more so than I'd ever dreamed they would be.

This is about the time we should be talking about 15 year-olds and their associated risk-seeking behaviors that are correlated with significant changes in their brain structures.

I'm thinking that you may have stepped in if your sons had approached you saying, "Hey, there's a big beach party for teens being thrown by some group called NAMBLA, I think I'm going to check it out."