Anyone have teenagers?
Why is it that teenagers become delightful people again just in time for us to ship them off to college? Sometimes I think that highschool aged kids should go to school away from home and the college age kids should commute from home...!!!
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fine, med porosity, normal elasticity
Currently using the following 2 - 3 x/week:
Living Proof Perfect Hair Day suphate-free Poo, cone-free CO and styling treatment, plus KCCC
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I have 3 kids - 2 daughters, ages 17 and 19 (who is nearly 20) and a son who is 14.
So far I prefer teenage boys - but he's young yet!
fine, med porosity, normal elasticity
Currently using the following 2 - 3 x/week:
Living Proof Perfect Hair Day suphate-free Poo, cone-free CO and styling treatment, plus KCCC
I think both genders have their pluses and minuses. I haven't gone through a teen girl yet (my daughter is only 9), but I imagine it really can't be worse than a moody teen boy. At least I'll "get" a teen girl, as I do have a few memories of that age myself. Raising boys for me has, at times, been like raising aliens. I don't always "get" why they do stuff....WHY did they have to squish bugs and jump on the couch and shoot everything? How can boys punch each other and then be best friends a minute later without even having to discuss it? Crazy stuff...
Ever since the sports thread wars I have sensed a special connection between [edit] & Wile. Like the connection oil has to water. I almost can't speak of it. Wait....my eyes are misting. ~asq
Let’s just stay together and tell the world to kiss our ass. ~P
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. (Invictus - William Ernest Henley)
Just think I used to worry 'bout things like that,
Used to worry 'bout rich and skinny, 'til I wound up poor and fat,
Nowadays I kind of worry where my mind's been at,
Just think I used to worry 'bout things like that. (Delbert McClinton - I Used to Worry from Never Been Rocked Enough)
Lucky me,my 21 yr old goes to college and lives at home,so I DO have the benefit of his company.
He's a great guy to be around.
#2 son is 18,not in college at the moment and has been looking for a job since graduation in June.He is miserable because he has nothing to do and can be pretty grouchy at times.
Still-I like having him around.
Then we have the 15 yr old.
Yikes.
Hormones!
"If you judge people,you have no time to love them"
-Mother Theresa
Then my middle son, who is usually a delight, hit his senior year and turned into a grumpy idiot. In many ways he is more mature than his brother (heart defect and when you face your own mortality at 16, you grow up fast). He started college in Aug, lives at home and for the most part is tolerable.
I have a 16 YO daughter who got most of the crap out of her system at 14...but I did wonder a few days if she was going to ever come out of her room again. She tried to do the emo/punk thing and we refused to let her.
We have an 8 YO also....no telling what is in store for us.;)
I agree, with girls I can remember being that way, but boys are a mystery (and when they were little? Lordy! Chris, we come in the house to go to the bathroom, we do not find the knothole in the fence and pee through it...and we don't let you little brother watch you do that!) I really did understand the reasoning...it was the perfect height and pretty irrisistable to a little boy.
The older I get, the less patience I have with cleverness. Thomas Sowell.
Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. Benjamin Franklin.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain.