Parenting a Teen

I screwed up. Plain and simple. I talked and reacted before I thought about what I was saying. James has always been well to him perfectly reasonable but to TFOLT and me a bit melodramatic when it comes to his life (what teen isn't?). Something was wrong on Tuesday with him and when he was explaining to me what was wrong, I committed the sin that most parents do and went with "my life experiences over rules your life experiences". You will see this is a minor thing when you look back on it in 10 years", oops, totally discounting that it was important to him now. It was one of those mistakes I wish I could go back and take back. Of course now I feel guilty as heck. It really bothers me when parents do not listen to their kids, yet here I did exactly that. Sorry James.