calzino, that sounds very intense!
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2024 00:15 (four months ago) link
teaching your child how to drive, getting those 50 hours of on the road practice, is likely the last sustained time you will ever spend with them.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 1, 2024 9:30 PM
I thought since fewer young people are able to move out that people would be getting closer to their parents now? I'm probably staying with dad until he dies and I have dinner with him everyday and he still gets frustrated that we don't spend enough time together but we don't really have any common interests, so it's not easy to talk about much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:40 (four months ago) link
“ He's much more interested in his friends than he is in any family stuff these days, and I also recognize that as good (and remember feeling the same way myself).”
This has been my experience as the parent of a now 17 year old. The last few years haven’t been fun.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:45 (four months ago) link
My kids are 18 and 15 (going on 25). My wife grew up in a house where the teenagers tended to congregate. Not in a lawless way but in a welcoming, 'well, you might as well do it somewhere safe' way. I sort of did too, but in a more covert, 'come and hide in our garage' kind of way. Consequently, our house has become a version of that and we've had a few parties now. We had my son's 18th here; there have been a few weekends where some of the friend group has ended up here after the pub etc. It's lovely*, tbh and I'm thankful my wife is so easy going and welcoming because, as much as I love it, it wouldn't have happened under my watch!
*there have already been a few occasions when I've fucked off upstairs and hidden and cursed the noise at 1am but I guess I'll take it.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:43 (four months ago) link
That sounds great. Count yourself fortunate
― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:54 (four months ago) link
I was a the grad I mentioned a few posts up last night, and the seven that were left from my class five years ago were great! Hadn't changed a bit. A couple of the girls immediately started making fun of the fact I was still using the same outdated camera. "Yes, I taught them well."
― clemenza, Thursday, 27 June 2024 14:35 (two months ago) link
I don't know what a sook is. I know what it is in Scotland.
― Blood On Santa's Claw (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 June 2024 14:37 (two months ago) link
To chime in on the parenting stuff: I have one, 17, who is definitely getting ready to launch - they have a job* and bank accounts; they're narrowing down colleges; and there lots of teen activities for which I'm not allowed to know the secret handshake.
* = said job is working at a summer camp two hours away, so they'll be away for a month. It tugs at me, although i know it is the way of things. Good practice for next year.
Other kiddo is 13 and rather more like calzino's. He requires nearly constant supervision, and will never be able to live on his own.
He's also verging on being too big and too willful for us oldsters to handle. My wife and I are not looking forward to wrestling a 6', 150-pound toddler into a diaper at age 18. At some point more help will be needed, and some solution that isn't just us.
Sulk ended. I sympathize with what everyone is going through.
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 June 2024 15:01 (two months ago) link