There are usually two things that teenagers complain about these days: school and parents. While school is understandably complainable about (tests, unfair teachers, homework etc.), it seems almost paradoxical that teenagers would complain about their parents, the ones that take care of them. This behavior tends to lead to distrust and even rejection, often known as “rebelling”. It often seems that teenagers go through their rowdy phase with their parents and as they reach their latter years in college, they soften and seem to get along better. Why is that? It could be that the college independence and natural growth of time lets these students understand adulthood, and ultimately their parents. Or possibly they finally realize what their parents have done for them to get as far as they have. According to Brad Manning, in his piece “Arm Wrestling with My Father”, he claims this acceptance comes from and understanding of love. Through his retelling of his interaction and realization with his father, Manning expresses that he truly found who he was through his father’s love. It was when he and his father realized this love did Manning accept responsibility for his parents and gain the strength his father had so lovingly bestowed upon him.