TEENAGERS!!!!!

03/23/2011

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teenagers!

Okay, you might have guessed by now, but just in case you didn't, this is a rant about.....teenagers.

I currently have a 14 year old and a 17 year old. What I'm wondering to myself most days, is how every parent out there made it through these years?! I sure as hell am having a very hard time - and I fear that it will NEVER get any better. Ever.

Aaron will be going to college in August. He will have to move to Presque Isle, because that would be a hell of a long commute if he lived here and went. And truthfully? I am excited about the prospect of getting some time away from him. It seems to me that we are always at odds with each other - it is really starting to wear on me and our relationship.

A few days ago we had a major blow-out. He called me an "f*cking b*tch", and I took his computer away. When his father came home, he called him names, and Kev told Aaron that he could leave if he couldn't show some respect. Apparently he couldn't, because he left.

He came home eventually that night, but we were all ragged from the afternoon's encounter.

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Ah - but you were a teenager once, back in the day! So they will eventually stop being teenagers, just like you did!

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I remember my mom had a big problem with my sister when she was a teenager. When I was a teenager, I don't remember ever giving my mom a hard time about much. Of course I had the occasional groundation periods but I learned from that. I think Aaron moving to college will be a good thing for him. It will let him have his own space and I think eventually it will make him grow closer to you and rest of your family because he won't be home all the time. :]

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it's totally normal. He's "soiling the nest". He's trying so hard to be independent and he's mad because he can't be entirely independent. Whatever you do, don't say things like "I can't wait until you leave" even though it might be totally true! That will only push him away and vice versa.

[ErinMichelleyBelly Star

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I remember thinking it would never end and always fearing the worst outcomes. One day an older woman told me that her boys went thru the same stage (drinking, speeding, accidents) and they straightened out in the early twenties when they got real jobs and had to be responsible. I just needed that perspective at that time. I was all doom and gloom. It is one day at a time and try to hold out the best perspective of them. They will sense what you expect of them whether it is good or bad. Better to be thinking all good thots about their future and possibilities and talents.

[mimi|0 likes] [|reply]

"Make it burn always with the hardest flame!"

You shouldn't have taken his computer away. That is just going to make things worse imho.♥

[CrazyBellatrix Star

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You just gave me further reason to not look forward to that special time in my daughter's life and it's approaching fast... she's 11 now... that's 2 years from 13... and the official start of 'teenagehood'...

Gosh I just can't wait.... no not really....Especially since she is little miss AT-TI-TUDE already

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