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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:41 PM
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my 14 yr old son's first formal, first tux
his school's homecoming dance...i just dropped he and his girl, and two other couples off. they're so cute! i was the driver. jesus, they grow up fast! :cry:

anyone in the same boat?
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:43 PM
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1. Egad...my son is only four years from that!
I hope I can take it...I already feel like he is so grown up.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:47 PM
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3. let's not even TALK about them driving!
:scared:
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:50 PM
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5. Mine wants me to fix up my old Jeep Renegade for him...
I told him NO. I remember the trouble I got into when I was a teen driving the thing.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:45 PM
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2. Couple of years and I'll be there...
Mine's in that rebellious "13 1/2-year-old stage" that lasts until...what?...25 or so?


Kids are fun at this age...they start becoming real people instead of reflections of us.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:48 PM
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4. 13 is a tough year
middle school is a very rocky stage. you'll be glad when he's past that point, i'm sure! is your son involved in sports?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:50 PM
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6. No sports...his choice.
His mother and I are divorced (for the past 6 years). He came to live with me a month ago (she lives 15 minutes away).

We get along great, even if he doesn't like that my rules are a little stricter than hers. So far, so good.

:)
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:51 PM
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7. they start becoming real people instead of reflections of us
No truer words ever spoken. I hope I can understand and tolerate that better than my parents did. :-)
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 10:53 PM
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8. When I was younger, I thought I'd be a lousy parent.
Fortunately, I was wrong. I actually hope he's getting as much out of it as I am...
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 11:03 PM
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9. My sister has a 14-1/2 and is finding this time very challenging...
(they also have a 3-year-old). I have an 8-year-old, and am wondering where the time went, and how i'm supposed to be calm when i find out she has a boyfriend for the 1st time in a few years (i hope it will be a few years).
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 11:04 PM
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10. i remember when my 8-year-old was a toddler ..
(seems like just yesterday).
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 11:20 PM
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11. "boyfriend" is usually a relative term...
I freaked out when my son was 8 and said he had a "girlfriend"... Seems it's like the whole "going with" thing that was around when I was a kid. No big deal.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-17-04 12:59 AM
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12. what . . . no pictures? . . .
figured you'd have your digital camera out and be posting before the first dance . . . :)
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-17-04 02:45 PM
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13. oh, i have pix
but to maintain the confidentiality of the other parties in the pix, i won't post them. suffice to say that he looked smooooth in his black tux, red bowtie, red cummerbund and dreadlox :-)
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