Teenage grandson: leadership guru, by Nancy Dorrier
My grandson, Phillip, 16, and I just returned from a vacation in California. He was the last of the grandchildren to go on “a Nana trip,” and we planned the trip with the redwoods in mind. I was happy he hadn't aged out of spending time with his grandmother. Around Christmas last year, I wondered to Phillip and his brother Alexander if I would ever become a boring grandmother, if at some point their friends and girls would be more interesting so they wouldn’t want to visit. “No way,” they said. “We will bring our friends and girls, and oh Nana, you will never be boring.” So okay, not boring. Sometimes hard of hearing and not getting the joke, but not boring. And they are happy to repeat themselves and explain the jokes. On the trip to California, Phillip and I saw the redwoods, lots of them. Phillip had his daddy’s drone with him, which he had stayed up late to fix before our early morning flight. He filmed from the bottom to the top of the thousand-year-