Parenting

[steelworker]

The joys of adolescence.

[northsouthdenimguy]

@Matt

I’m pretty old school. I have two stepdaughters, 17 and 18, and my bio girls who live in Florida with their mom are 13 and 18, so fortunately they don’t have to listen to my rules.

No boys allowed in bedrooms or upstairs, and no boys in the house when we’re not home. One of our couple friends has kids around the same age and asked, “Why do you do that? You know they’re gonna mess around anyway.”

I said, “Yeah, but I can at least make them work for it like I had to…”

[Matt]

Pretty lucky to have good kids. My only rules are get good grades and don’t get pregnant. Short of that they can join a gang for all I care.

[northsouthdenimguy]

A quick trip down to Florida to see my daughter graduate high school on Monday. One of my stepdaughters graduated also on Monday here in Atlanta. Georgia and Florida never do anything on the same schedule except for this one thing

Oh well… three down, two more to go. One more next year, then a four year break until the final grad.

[AdamC]

Both my children’s birthdays this past week so have a party for them with 35 kids invited today, wish me luck! Party admin until then

[tody]

@AdamC are you sure you're going to survive this?

[AdamC]

@tody 50/50, that’s why I posted, if you don’t hear from me again, it was the party

[Tago Mago]

@AdamC it’s been nice to know you

[goosehd]

If you ever want to hide something from your kids, put it in the dishwasher…

They will never find it.

[Brian]

@goosehd or laundry basket

[goosehd]

@Brian so very true

[Giles]

To hide anything from Paula, I put it in the shed, or better still the tool drawer in the shed......

[goosehd]

@Giles just burst out laughing

[Matt]

If you ever want laundry filled with a thousand pieces of Kleenex just ask them to make sure they empty their pockets before putting their clothes in the laundry.

[Giles]

You talking about Paula?

[Matt]

It works for children of all ages.

[goosehd]

I walked into the laundry room the other day and it looked like a Kleenex bomb went off...thank god I do most of my laundry separately. Learned from previous mistakes.

[SKT]

@goosehd separate laundry is the only way

[Matt]

There’s no way in hell I’d put my laundry in with the kids or Katie. God knows what’s in there.

[GraemeE]

Oldest (13) told me this week she wants to find "those white long sleeve shirts with the tiny squares that people used to wear under their t-shirts in the 90s"