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We Caught Our Son Using His Telescope for Something Not So Wholesome. Yikes.

Slate Magazine·Jamilah Lemieux·about 1 month ago
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Care and Feeding Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by asiandelight/Getty Images Plus.  Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column.  Have a question for Care and Feeding?  Submit it here . Dear Care and Feeding, My wife recently imposed a punishment on our 14-year-old son, “Jordan,” for a harmless teenage transgression that I think went too far. Jordan had a telescope. Last week, my wife caught him using it to spy on a female neighbor as she undressed in her bedroom, and she smashed it in response. I really don’t think what my son did was so out of bounds as to warrant such an extreme reaction. Doesn’t my wife owe him a new telescope and an apology? —Telescope Trouble Dear Trouble, We get occasional troll emails, as you may know, and part of me hopes that this is one of them. The other part of me is concerned that this incident did, in fact, happen and that a father has such a cavalier attitude about an egregious violation of a neighbor’s privacy.…

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