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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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is sometimes easier than raising teens!
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an exhausted MOM of too many
today!
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Do what I did today!!!!! Sent them off on a vacation with their dad! All boys vacation. Mommy stays home in a clean house for one week. Heaven!!!!
 
I must say B has been way too good today, I know she is plotting something!
 
I know what you mean Anne ... they can be sweet as pie when things are going their way and then the MINUTE you cross them ... BAM... evil teen spawn emerges! *shudder*
 
Having teens sometimes feels like :dizzy Glad you've kept your sense of humor (or is that just the insanity showing?) :giggle Hang in there and try not to :sense.

You'll make it through! :bk
 
You're most definitely scaring me! :) glad that I have some time to go... Before the teens strike...till then...hang on!:)
 
Pallavi, they say each year teenagers start acting up earlier. LOL!!!
 
If I just concentrate on the four teens I have now I do good... sometimes I lose focus and scare myself with the fact in 9 years I will have their more
 
I am so not ready for the teen years and it's coming soon! My oldest is 9. I think my youngest is going to be the one to worry about more though... for now, I'm riding the wave of good behavior we have going at their current ages. :)
 
Karen said:
I am so not ready for the teen years and it's coming soon! My oldest is 9. I think my youngest is going to be the one to worry about more though... for now, I'm riding the wave of good behavior we have going at their current ages. :)
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I am really a bit of an exaggerator, they are really good kids, just GROWING up and making decisions without mom...and that is hard, especially when they aren't great ones..but Karen, I do go back and look at my layouts of the really great ages! lol cause then I remember I do love them just as much!
 
Even the most fantastic kids can be trying at times. They do grow out of the difficult ages and then what joy to see the wonderful people they become!
 
MamaB: yes, I am the living proof of that....

I made my parents life an inferno: you name it, I did it, and confronted all kind of dangers in the process....
I have to admit, and I am trusting that this one will be the case of my daughjter too....everything my parents taught me, the discipline, the love, the naging....was what saved my life because when it was timeto take responsability and act...I did what my parents taught me...

My daughter had a very very bad period for about 6 to 8 months until a couple of months ago...and she was the most wonderful kid.....still, I think is in the spirit of the rebelion...no matter of they have nothing to rebel agaisnt...they will find something.
I'm not saying every child goes wild...but the ones who do?
Like Mama B well said:it does eventually pass...
I have to admit I was a wreck a few months ago (some of you here have been with me through it and to some of you I owe my sanity) and I had thoughts I NEVER in my life thought possible....

I think inpart we need to let them make their own mistales up to a certain point...and trust that what we have given them will help getting them back to be our *normal* child...

There is one thing I know in my heart and have proven: the more we say no, the more they would want to do whatever it is that we say no to....so I had to find a way around it, and now she thinks is her choice not to do certain things....

Love you Anne, you know also where to find me, any time, if needed Hugggggzzz
 
I have a toddler but that seems so easy compared to teaching my teen students.
 
I have to say 98% of the time my teen girl is an angel .... even with a new boyfriend she is still easy to talk to and will listen if I have something to say ... it's the pre-teen that is going to do my head in eventually. I love that girl to bits but there is a reason that she has taken to debating like a duck to water .....she could argue underwater with a mouthful of marbles! And likes to practice her fledgling debating skills on her poor Mama!
 
amandac said:
there is a reason that she has taken to debating like a duck to water .....she could argue underwater with a mouthful of marbles! And likes to practice her fledgling debating skills on her poor Mama!
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Your way with words is just too funny!
 
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