In middle school, when other mothers were already lamenting the estrangement they felt with their adolescent daughters, I hit upon a solution: rescue raids.

• 孩子上中学时,当许多妈妈因正处于青春期的孩子与自己开始疏远而痛心时,我突然想出一个挽救措施:在她事先不知情的情况下,突然去学校看望她。