Let's just file this under "It must be nice not to have any real problems" or, as one of the commenters at Slate put it, "Of all the problems that didn't happen, this one didn't happen the most."

Of course, I do feel a little sorry for James if his parents don't learn to live their own lives and leave him the heck alone.

Snarking aside...

I’m also slightly worried, because it’s normal and healthy for kids his age to rebel.

I have one rule of life. One rule, and that's "the more you hear people repeat a thing without providing any sort of proper citation, the more likely it is to be false".

So, with that in mind, I want to sit LW down and ask "Where do you think this idea comes from? Who told you this, and where did they get that information from? Where's the evidence?"

People do not like it when I do this, but honestly, if more people would habitually do it themselves I'm sure they'd be much happier for it.