THE TEENAGER
Question:
What do you do when the teenager is wearing a shirt that is not appropriate for the teenager to be wearing?
Answer:
You tell the teenager to change the teenagers shirt.
Question:
What to you do when you are in the car heading to the max station about half a mile away from home to drop off the teenager for a day of fun and you notice the teenagers sweat shirt is all zipped up to the top and you remember you told the teenager to change the teenagers shirt so you ask the teenager if the teenager changed the shirt and the teenager did not change the shirt?
Answer:
You turn around and go home and make the teenager change the teenagers shirt.
Question:
What do you do when the teenager does not say "thank you" for driving the teenager places the teenager wants to go? (whether the teenager is thankful or not, and weather you have told the teenager a gazillion times the teenager needs to say thank you when someone does something for the teenager even if the teenager hates the person who is doing something for the teenager like driving the teenager places)
Answer:
You do not take the teenager where the teenager wants to go the next time the teenager wants a ride. And the teenager cannot go where the teenager wants to go even if the teenager can find the teenagers own ride, because the teenager was ungrateful for all the good things you do for the teenager. (except to work. The teenager can find the teenagers own way to work even if it is raining. But you should pick up the teenager from work after it gets dark outside because that's not safe and you do love the teenager but when the teenager leaves for work and it's light outside the teenager can walk to the buss.)
Question:
What do you do when you plan with the teenager to pick the teenager up from Borders between 5:00 - 5:30 after you drove the teenager to the max station earlier in the day and gave the teenager permission to go to the mall and the teenager calls you and tells you the teenager is just getting on the max at 5:30 when you are already on your way to pick up the teenager and you started dinner in the oven and only have a certain amount of time to get back to take it out of the oven so this really messes things up?
Answer:
You Hope that the teenager gets to Borders in enough time for you to get back home before dinner burns and you look at the bright side of things either you can be thankful gas is only $1.85 a gallon and you can drive back home to be there when dinner needs to come out of the oven and you make the teenager wait for you to pick up the teenager when you can. OR you can go to goodwill and hope that the timing all works out and you enjoy your time at a thrift store and then you have a talk with the teenager and tell the teenager that because the teenager was not back at the time that was arranged the teenager can't go where the teenager wants to go next time.
Question:
What do you do when you ask the teenager how the teenagers day was when you pick up the teenager from Borders 1 hour late from the time when you arranged to pick up the teenager because the teenager doesn't care about what time it is and the teenager wants to stay out later. Then the teenager lies about why the teenager is late and the teenager says the teenager was not watching the time and thought it was 4:00 pm when it was 5:00 pm. And then you notice the teenager does not have the teenagers seat belt on and you ask the teenager to put it on and the teenager acts all mad and angerly whips the seat belt on with attitude? And then you ask the teenager what the teenager is so mad about and the teenager disrespectfully says "you annoy the HELL out of me!"?
Answer:
You explain to the teenager that it's rude and disrespectful to talk to the teenagers parent that way. Because you need to instruct the teenager in the right behavior and then you FORGIVE the teenager even though you want to reach over and SMACK the teenager because the teenager hurt you when you are doing nice things for the teenager at your own sacrifice and you are tired.
3 comments:
Answer to all these questions? Call said teenager's aunt and she'll come kick her butt!! What a brat!
She'll learn someday Diane, and then she'll regreat all her bitcy-ness. Just wait about 5 to 10 years....it'll come. ;-)
Whew. I can't wait...
The funny thing is that the teen years are not much diffrent than a 2 year old. The important thing is to lay the foundation now while they are toddler age. Somehow we didn't do that so well and we are reaping what we sowed. As much as our children need to be loved they also need to FEAR (in a good way) us as parents that we will discipline them. Valarie hates the concequences but she wants strong parents who will follow through on what they say. It's hard and it's allways a fight. It makes you feel so mean.
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