Hello

[PamG]

What a great board! I have a 16 year old son. I would love any advice on parenting a teen. This has got the be the hardest thing ever! I just THOUGHT the terrible twos were bad.

[peako]

Pam, my darling boy was a piece of cake at 2, there are days that I wish we could go back to diappers and Mommy is a Goddess. If I have to deal with his crap, the kind I can clean and dispose of is preferable.

[PamG]

Originally Posted by peako

Pam, my darling boy was a piece of cake at 2, there are days that I wish we could go back to diappers and Mommy is a Goddess. If I have to deal with his crap, the kind I can clean and dispose of is preferable.

LOVE it!!!!

[BC-DKNY]

hi pam....we would love some good advice too!! who ever told you we knew what we were doing lied!!!!

hard doesn't even scratch the surface. i'm a pretty together person but i have been near tears at times out of utter frustrations. and overrall our kids are good kids.

i iwll say this tho....i can see why some ppl just let their kids do whatever....it's much easier. the constant battles with a teenager and the energy it takes to go over the same things again and again is just exhausting! sometimes i just want to let something go then to follow through with it. but alas, i know my efforts and diligence will pay off in the long run so i muster up the energy to keep going.

if you scan through the board you'll see we've done a lot of venting here LOL.

[Linaa78]

I thought it was just mine!!! I have a 16 soon to be 17 in November DSS. Have raised him since he was 6. Sometimes, my gut tells me what I am doing is not enough. Somtimes, my heart tells me I am doing the best that I can and not every child at every stange is a joy. We had a pretty tough summer, but I think our talk did us some good. Hopefully this will be a great school year for both of us. OMG, junior prom already!!

[Ang71]

Whoever said parenting is easy was way wrong! I am really trying hard to just go day by day. Jordan is also a junior in high school and I just think in 2 very short years he'll be going away to college and even though 2 yrs seems like a long way away. He is so independent already some days I feel like I have already lost him. I am just so glad that Jordan has a good head on his shoulders and we have such a open line of communication that I am sure things will be ok.

Ditto on the prom thing, Jordan just told me today that he already knows who he is going to prom with and it is a SENIOR girl!! Yikes! Now that really worries me!

Thanks for listening.

Angie

[Linaa78]

Wow a Senior!!! DSS is the first class in this school it just opened when he was a freshman, so there is no senior class, won't have to worry about that. I am still worried about the whole it's over in 2 years. I think I get more panic-y than he does!!