Teens. That word pretty much sums it up. For any of you that have a teen, you know what I mean.
Before I had one, I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. I mean, my son wasn't an angel (far from it) but he was pretty much average, I'd say. Yeah sometimes you had to tell him a couple of times to do stuff.. but usually, he did it.
But NOW we have a full-fledged TEENAGER. Uhhhhgggg! He's 14 and the hormones have kicked in FULL FORCE.
A few facts about teenagers:
1. They know EVERYthing. Parents are the most ignorant people on the planet. We were never teenagers and we never went to school or delt with peer pressure.
2. They have a hearing problem. "You didn't tell me that!" "You never said I couldn't!" "I never heard you!" These are their replies no matter HOW many times you've said the same thing to them.
3. Rules that they don't like don't seem to apply to them. And they also seem to make them up as they go along. Case in point. My teen son informs me that he gets an extra 30mins added to his school-night bed time each year. So since he had to be in bed last year by 9:30pm, this year he gets to stay up until 10pm. WTH? He tries to say I told him that. I never did. So that also makes them delusional.
4. Apparently all teens start out wanting to be lawyers. LOL They're loophole masters. They sit around just thinking about how they can get out of doing stuff. "Ok.. you said I have to, but you didn't say when." "Yeah, but you didn't say how." "You said no TV but you didn't say no DVD."
Today, I had to type up some rules. Rules that have been gone over time and time again. But STILL after many reminders, and many replies of "You never said that" or "You didn't say WHEN" enough is enough. So.. they're going into writing. Sheesh.
Heck.. having a teenager deserves it's own blog. Hmm...
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Not at 14. Not anymore.
Just wait 'till you have one. LMAO I used to say the SAME thing. ;)
How were you at that age? I'm sure you were the perfect little angel right? It's karma.
LOL Nope.. I wasn't an angel. Doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
You still have to be a parent, no matter what kind of crap you pulled as a kid. And you can't let yours get by with it, either. ;)
I have two. One is 6 and the other is pushing 9months old. At the teen years, taking away all privleges was enough to make me mind. I probably still got my ass whooped though. haha.
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