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Globusdiablo

Globusdiablo
Trying to reason with my teenage son, I sometimes struggle. [hotas]

Some say an image says more than a thousand words, so how about (animated) images with words?

Here's some food for thought for my strong-minded son:

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Feel free to share you wisdom here for other parents to gear up. :)
 

Anon Sin

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So if life was all cake,it wouldn't be cake,so what would it be... bread,milk? I thought wisdom was meant to make sense and you know... be wise!
Good luck Commander! o7
 

Globusdiablo

Globusdiablo
Anon Sin said:
So if life was all cake,it wouldn't be cake,so what would it be... bread,milk? I thought wisdom was meant to make sense and you know... be wise!
Good luck Commander! o7
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It's called lateral thinking, because, well, it requires a degree of lateral thinking.

Do you not get the reference? Image and words illustrating that if life was all cake, you would become sick and tired of the thing we all relatively speaking love: cake?

That when reasoning with your teenage son, he has to grasp that he can't go through life doing only what he wants to do at any given moment?

I'm going to assume you're not a lateral thinker or parent and therefore excused. :)

Necronaught said:
Just wait till he meets a girl and then ignores everyone.
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I'll have to yell even louder I suppose... ;)

artigan99 said:
Cake? Or death?
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Close, but no cigar. :)
 

verminstar

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verminstar
Reason with a teenager? Thats new. Show them no weakness or yer life will become a living hell...if ye think its been hard work up until now, then sorry, that was just the warmup. Its about to get so much worse

I have a 15 year old daughter...advice? Dont teach them how to drive when they 11 and then expect them not to steal the car keys...fit an alarm. When it comes to talking about the birds and the bees, yer kid laughing at you means they could probably educate you...ye can live with the lie that they just embrassed if that helps ye sleep at night.

Be a responsible father and tell them truth about how terrible yer life has been since they were concieved. Yer social life down the toilet, no freedom, no money...all the most fun parts of becoming a father basically. Buy them some rubbers but do it discreetly and whatever ye do, dont tell yer missus if yer unfortunate enough to still have one. In fact let them see how scared ye are of her finding out and impress on them that procreation at this point in life is a death sentance. Tell them ye will gleefully give them up fer adoption if they dont toe the line and mean it.

Sons will be too terrified of ever looking at Uncle Charlies magazines ever again, and daughters will be given a guilt complex about ruining daddys life even worse than it already has been just getting to that point. By the time they do start ruining their own lives, they will be old enough to throw out on the street.

Never underestimate psychological warfare with teenagers...let them think its a democracy...does wonders for their self esteem if they think they have a choice. Ye know ye hit the sweet spot if ye have them making a choice that they think ye wont like, when that was actually what ye wanted them to choose in the first place. Act all indignified now and then...let them think they got one over ye. Lull them into a false sense but letting them think yer a pushover...they make more mistakes when they think they better than you and its far easier to catch them out in the end ^
 
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Hell Razor5543

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"For the early years of your life I will be the font of all knowledge. Then, for an indeterminate period, I will know nothing at all worth knowing (and you probably will hate me). Eventually you may then realise that I do know quite a lot of useful things (and, I hope, you will love me again)."
 

Sir.Tj

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I have a teenage son and daughter along with an additional teenager I've seemed to have inherited (Don't ask.)

Kids today are much more mature than when I was a teenager and we seem to be doing ok most of the time.

However I find the best way to deal with the daily trials and tribulations of being the single parent to them is to lock myself in the bathroom, lie in the bath curl up into a small ball and stay very, very still and quiet then hope they don't find me.

Always have a escape route planned and use emotional blackmail as often as you can...even though it never works...

And if any Frontier staff, forum members turn up who've met my kids say the're really nice etc etc.... do not believe them for a second. (This even includes DBOBE who tends to ask how they are as soon as he see's me...Yeah I'm fine as well thanks...... :p)
 
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GreyAreaUK

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Many's the time I've looked at Del, my youngest, and thought to myself "what advice can I give him? How can I help him fulfil his potential?"

And then I realise that ultimately it simply doesn't matter. Mostly because he's a cocker spaniel.

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Globusdiablo

Globusdiablo
Sir Tj said:
...However I find the best way to deal with the daily trials and tribulations of being the single parent to them is to lock myself in the bathroom, lie in the bath curl up into a small ball and stay very, very still and quiet then hope they don't find me...
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StiTch

StiTch
Speaking as someone that is halfway between teenagerism and the age where I'd want kids, I wish my parents had addressed one thing differently - how they told me I'd miss education.

Instead of mindlessly repeating I'd regret not getting the most enjoyment out my college years, I'd have probably listened if they'd pointed out that work is exactly the same but worse - I still have to get up and do the same crap, but I have to do it or I'll starve - and peeing around gets ya fired, being late gets ya fired...
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
StiTch said:
Speaking as someone that is halfway between teenagerism and the age where I'd want kids, I wish my parents had addressed one thing differently - how they told me I'd miss education.

Instead of mindlessly repeating I'd regret not getting the most enjoyment out my college years, I'd have probably listened if they'd pointed out that work is exactly the same but worse - I still have to get up and do the same crap, but I have to do it or I'll starve - and peeing around gets ya fired, being late gets ya fired...
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Famous sign that was apparently on a Computer Science Lecturer's door: "If your programme is 90% correct I will give you an 'A'. Your employer will fire you."
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Ian Phillips said:
My 15 year old daughter pooed all over me before she was 24 hours old.

Should I expect things to change?
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My eldest shat in the bath when he was five. It's all sweet, sweet ammunition these days. :)

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain (allegedly).

I find that with t(w)eenagers, it's all about where you construct the lines-to-be-crossed. For instance, I don't limit their screen time. I do, however, expect their homework to be done first and their online presence to be limited. Their PCs are in the living room. That means that they pretty much can't go online unparented: They're not often up before my wife or myself.
 
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Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
My 7 year old daughter took an explosive dump on me once as I was changing her diaper. Ah, fatherhood.

I'm always surprised by how similar and yet different we are. For instance she is a real drama queen. I think I'm fairly even keel by comparison. She's also very stubborn, though, which is totally me. Sometimes when I get mad at her I realize how other people must feel dealing with me, lol.
 
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