What bothers me most about this piece is that her son's friends now all know about it and certainly must be giving him the what for, you know? I have written quite a bit about my boys, but I am sure to never, ever chastise them in the public arena - even in ways that come across as loving, like this which I suppose is a pre-chastisement. I only tell the funny and beautiful things. If I posted this, my boy would fling the phone across the room and hide under his bed for a month. Now, putting that aside, much of the advice is okay, although I would never have come up with such a list for my kids. I trust them 100 percent, and although they make mistakes like we all do, they trust me enough to talk to me when they make a mistake. I'm sure they do and say and think things that they will never tell me, but that's part of growing up, too.