By: Brooke Riffe, LCSW-C, RPT-S It’s finally summer! That means driving my son to summer camp, instead of waving goodbye as he gets on the bus. This provides such a welcome opportunity for talking that we don’t normally get. We’re on the way to golf camp, in traffic inching down 97, and I decide to turn on a throwback, Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill album. About 20 seconds into the song, my 12-year-old shouts “SKIP!” from the backseat. Skip? I think, skip “All I r

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