The ego of a teenage boy is actually pretty fragile, and he had really put himself out there.

As a mostly-fully-formed adult with a mostly-fully-formed identity, totally agree with you. Sometimes I forget how vulnerable we were as children.

If I could do it over again, I’d still do it, I’d just have somehow made it clear I was impressed by what he’d done, and wasn’t mocking him for doing it.

Thanks for cutting me some slack on this, though.