The oldest turns a defining age today: 13
Yes, we now have a teenager in the house. To celebrate, we took the child and a few friends (both boys and girls) out to dinner. To give an example of the conversation, I decided to take notes on the topics. I might have missed a few, but this is a fairly accurate sampling:
-Birds and the Bees (or, what every parent of a new teen wants to discuss with their kids and their friends)
Kid 1: Oooh, I remember having the conversation about the birds and the bees...
Kid 2: Huh. I didn't get a stinking birds and bees conversation, my parents were much more blunt on the subject...
-Burning to a crisp (I couldn't even begin to understand how the segway worked here)
Kid 1: You'd burn to a crisp, at least when Mercury and Venus vaporize...
Kid 2: Yeah, but you wouldn't want to be in a cold bath when it happens, because, then, the water would boil and just burn you worse...
-Nuclear Weapons Ummm, cause it's kinda similar to burning for environmental reasons?
-Ferrets Because one of the kids just got one...
Kid: And my ferret has a magnet in his head. Either that, or he's just dumb. He keeps banging his head on his cage... (kinda like I started doing on the table probably...)
-Screetching chalkboards Because this is important to every student
-Jumping out of playschool windows This is just a natural transition folks...
-Hw to hurt each other Yep, their friends (maybe even BFF)
Fashion Designers From one of the boys. This boy already has a very strong sense of self and masculinity. But again, I never could figure out how this transition in conversation happened.
So, by the end of dinner, I knew it to be official that I had a teenager in the house by the fact that I no longer understood the conversation changes, let alone content. It really is going to stink with all of us being this confused all the time...
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