Warning: Teenager Ahead
Posted on April 14th, 2010Excuse me, but I have a problem. I was not warned that my adorable son would become a teenager. Seriously. Why wasn
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April 16th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I feel you on the becoming a teenager thing. I have a 8 year old going on 17, and I want to scream. Good luck with that
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April 19th, 2010 at 3:25 am
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April 25th, 2010 at 8:21 am
From memory of my own brother’s teenaged years – and aversion to showering – I suspect that the socks become animated in some kind of mutant life cycle and just walk themselves out of the house. One day a huge ecosystem of teenaged socked living somewhere underground will be discovered.
April 25th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
This is so funny, and yet it frightens me… my son is 2. Someday he will be 14. Maybe I better start buying socks now…
(Omg omg omg…)
April 26th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
But if you do stock up now, then those socks might just contribute to Pixielation (Alison)’s theory of a mutant sock underground. And by mutant, I mean teenage.
And cherish 2. Pretty soon he will be 14 and bigger than you!
June 3rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I really enjoyed this post, especially the
June 4th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
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June 8th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
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September 9th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I can relate i have a teenage son and everything you said is so true. My belive is that when boys hit teenage years the go stupid and forget everything you taught them through the years..
October 27th, 2010 at 1:42 am
OMG…I feel as if you are living in my house! I have (gasp…breathe….) TWO teenagers….one boy and one girl…talk about feeling as if I’m living in an alien world! One minute the hate me…the next the love me. WTH….I feel as if I’m on a never ending roller coaster ride with no seat belt! I LOVE you posts…just discovered them and can’t get enough! Keep them up…at least I know I’m not the only one dealing with the craziness that raising teens brings! Thanks so much!
October 27th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Why is he so darn mood? He’s like a light switch. One minute he is so loving and next he wants nothing to do with me. He completely shuts me out!!! Very depressing!
October 27th, 2010 at 2:13 am
I am soooo…. thankful this came up on yahoo because I was feeling like a complete failure and in utter shock that my son that I have every summer has become an alien that I could not relate to, Now I get it he is teen phasing and this too shall pass. I hope
October 27th, 2010 at 3:15 am
I loved your blogs. As the mother of a 16 year old girl and 18 and 20 year old boys, I could relate all too well to each topic. How to wake up a teenager is a howl (and so very true — each and every point) to the milk vanishing (I buy 3 to 4 gallons at a time and my boys are at college but one comes home on the weekends). I, too, don’t look at expiration dates because it is pointless. When watermelons are in season I buy three large ones at a time. Everyone in the store thinks I’m going to a large picnic but it’s just for my bunch at home. I just spent 1-1/5 hours yesterday picking the clothes up in my daughter’s room so that I could get the sheets off of her bed so that I could have the privilege of washing them. I was exhausted before I got to the washer! I told my 20 year old yesterday to never again put his shoes on the kitchen table and I find socks everywhere — in the garage, the driveway, the front porch and every room in the house. I don’t find them in the hamper — ever! I’m told I’ll miss these days; right now I’m having trouble imagining that! Thanks for the laughs. Good luck; we’ll all need it! Actually I need much more than luck. To top it all off, after they totally trash the house you have to hand over every dollar you make to pay for college. I’m sure their own house someday will be spotless. I can’t wait — revenge will be sweet!
October 27th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Just try washing the linens of a teen age girl ! By the time you make your way from the door to the bed, you have found the hamster that got out of its cage 3 years ago, a litter of kittens (who is the momma because your 5 cats have all been spayed and neutered !), her chemistry book that she lost and we replaced, and 27 leg warmers and not one is a pair ! Then you finally hit the bed ! Finally ! You remove the sheets , shake out the cell phone, I-touch and water bottles. As you are cramming everything into the washer, you charming daughter screams that her homework is somewhere in that pile of sheets along with her math workbook ! Ten minutes later, I am looking through the cabinets for chocolate, anything chocolate ! She tells me she can’t wait until she is old enough to move out, I tell her that I can’t wait until she does her own laundry ! Check mate !
October 27th, 2010 at 6:49 am
Just discovered your blog, you are so funny. But really, as parent of 3 teen daughters, I’ve gone through the mill so to speak. Your wit and humor are so refreshing! Loved the recent waking up teens story, been there, done that!
OMG-Laughter is the best medicine!
Keep bogging, you are terrific!
October 27th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Dear teenage mom.
You REALLY don’t want to find those socks.
Plaster a smile on your face and start buying the really cheap ones by the carton.
Be glad he throws them away and keep on buying new ones.
Just don’t give him the carton. I did and soon thereafter found that they were put back into the handy carton after use. Along with a economy-sized vat of moisturizer.
Several seconds later my cheerful whistle stopped as I found that “use” had nothing to do with feet and that the “boy” had indeed become a teenager.
October 27th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Wow, I’m still a teen but I can see myself growing out of the phase now that I’m 18 and off to college – and mine doesn’t have dorms and is at the other side of the country. Basically I’m learning the road of an adult and although I still remember that its just a phase and that teens are awesome, teens are starting to seem a bit childish to me in some ways, like i don’t sleep late into the afternoons anymore and I don’t always go to sleep at 4 in the morning but that’s probably because I’m a singer and must always be in good health because my voice is my instrument. I also a, growing out of the shower thing – I am still a teenage boy in some ways but I can see myself maturing…i can’t believe I did half of this stuff to my own mother, but I can relate to it and sort of see why but wow, are we teenagers that crazy?!
October 27th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
OMG! you have no idea how glad I am to have found this site. I am a single mother of 2 teenagers. A girl and a boy. It has gotten to the point in my house where I don’t want to have to go home from work. How crazy is that?Who in their right mind would want to stay at work instead of going home. A mother of a teen would! This site has made me so happy. Now I know I’m not alone and It’s not just my teens. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. But, still I don’t want to go home
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October 27th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
I like finding the socks that are crunchy… I don’t know what comes out of his feet that after it dries it becomes crunchy but he has plenty of it!
October 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
im a teen and i find this all hilaroius, cause its all true! my ma is always complaining about my room or socks. we also never have food. we go through 7 gallons of milk in a week. and only me and my ma drink it. i wiped out my friends whole gallon in a single night, they even stock up on it when they know im coming. so thats not just him. she also thinks that the wash is never ending. she had to deal with my 4 other siblings doing this at the same time. i kinda feel bad…
October 29th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
All the teens–don’t feel bad. I love my son more than anything on the planet–but there are days when I’d trade him in for a sports car. A nice one though. Like a Porsche. Okay, some days just a 20 year old beemer would do. But all of us moms love you teens even if you do drink all the milk and have horrible rooms. Really.
Ooh, Joseph’s mom, i think you should check out Dad’s comment above yours. I believe he might have the answer to your crunchy sock issue.
March 10th, 2011 at 8:57 am
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