Parents of teenagers don't chug - or so says Cheyenne, self-appointed arbiter of appropriate parental behavior as it applies to teens. Alas, I have been a fan of The Eagles for years and as such, I love chugging all night...or at least I love the song that espouses it. So I have it on my [...]
Tag: pre-teens
WHOA! BACK UP THE BUS!
Cheyenne informed me in passing the other day that she has taken to reading some of my blog entries. She said, "I thought they would be stupid, but they're not...they're funny." WHOA! BACK UP THE BUS! Was that an off-handed compliment from my 12 year old? Did I have a break with reality? Was I abducted [...]
Validation.
You won't ever catch me saying I am the perfect parent - I am not. To be a perfect parent I would have to be a perfect person. I am not a perfect person. I can think of plenty of moments over my 30 years of parenting to-date that I could have done better with. Unfortunately, [...]
I am a life ruiner…
I am a life ruiner...or so I am told. I have heard this many times over the past couple of decades. Those would be the decades of my parenting children who have advanced into the "I believe I know what is best for my life" stage of development. It starts somewhere between the ages of [...]
This is not my first rodeo…
I have been at this parenting thing for awhile (June 16th marks 30 years). With three of my four children over the age of 21 I have done the pre-teen/teen years not once, not twice, but three times. I might add that one of those times was with a daughter whose penchant for dramatic flair [...]
New rules!
The Princess of Quite-A-Lot is back from her summer-long sojourn with her father and order is restored in the kingdom...with "order" being a relative term. A kingdom with a Queen in the new forty and a Princess of Quite-A-Lot of the age 11 is one helluva' a kingdom. One might argue that no moat or [...]
THE NEW FORTY 